10-01-2022, 07:17 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-01-2022, 07:23 AM by Gabriel Richards.)
"There you are, sir!" A thin figure in a long black cassock approached Koerd.
Gabriel had offered himself for the search party, eager to get away from the portion of the family who didn't seem to care about the young man's disappearance. He had felt the tension during the ceremony - seen the hostile glances, the icy handshakes, heard the occasional whispering, and even the church had seemed a few degrees colder than on a usual September day during the Mass - and he knew there was conflict about the inheritance. The poor fresh widow herself was not even dead yet. He couldn't blame her great-nephew for leaving as soon as he could, but all the same he had promised her he'd look for the man.
Those guests who had cared to go looking - Gabriel hoped they were in the will and the others were not - had spread out: some had gone back to the graveyard, some had gone in the direction of the station, and Gabriel and others had spread out in random directions. He hadn't expected to be the one to find the young man, but he was glad he was.
"Your great-aunt is very concerned about you. Surely you wouldn't leave without a goodbye?" He stretched his arm in the direction of man's shoulder as if to wrap it around him consolingly, to beckon him to walk with him.
Gabriel had offered himself for the search party, eager to get away from the portion of the family who didn't seem to care about the young man's disappearance. He had felt the tension during the ceremony - seen the hostile glances, the icy handshakes, heard the occasional whispering, and even the church had seemed a few degrees colder than on a usual September day during the Mass - and he knew there was conflict about the inheritance. The poor fresh widow herself was not even dead yet. He couldn't blame her great-nephew for leaving as soon as he could, but all the same he had promised her he'd look for the man.
Those guests who had cared to go looking - Gabriel hoped they were in the will and the others were not - had spread out: some had gone back to the graveyard, some had gone in the direction of the station, and Gabriel and others had spread out in random directions. He hadn't expected to be the one to find the young man, but he was glad he was.
"Your great-aunt is very concerned about you. Surely you wouldn't leave without a goodbye?" He stretched his arm in the direction of man's shoulder as if to wrap it around him consolingly, to beckon him to walk with him.
