Stephen's brother falls quiet after the toast, and I consider him thoughtful, but...
"You lay out the dead, Glass? Bless you for that," Nu says, and I'm startled into a kinder smile, dip my head as I glance over to him. Rare enough to hear that; folk take it for hard work, and serious, but most don't take it for anything like the kindness it is, to the dead and to the living. "I work more in beginnin's myself, but endin's need managin' too," and that brings another's words to mind...
"Love wheatfields ripe and then sown," I say soft, echoing a still woman in a dark blue robe that stood and spoke t'me 'midst gravestones, "seeds waiting 'neath soil to be born again, the flight of birds, fish leaping from the water." Shake my head and go on in a clearer tone, thinking that if he'd not already been by the Abbey I'd suggest it. "Lay them out and see them to the ground, and take their sins," I say, sipping my drink. "I--my thanks," and I'm not sure exact what to say... "Understand work with beginnings has its decent side too."
"Beginnings?" Underwood says. "What work do you do that allows you to work in something as hopeful as beginnings?"
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"You lay out the dead, Glass? Bless you for that," Nu says, and I'm startled into a kinder smile, dip my head as I glance over to him. Rare enough to hear that; folk take it for hard work, and serious, but most don't take it for anything like the kindness it is, to the dead and to the living. "I work more in beginnin's myself, but endin's need managin' too," and that brings another's words to mind...
"Love wheatfields ripe and then sown," I say soft, echoing a still woman in a dark blue robe that stood and spoke t'me 'midst gravestones, "seeds waiting 'neath soil to be born again, the flight of birds, fish leaping from the water." Shake my head and go on in a clearer tone, thinking that if he'd not already been by the Abbey I'd suggest it. "Lay them out and see them to the ground, and take their sins," I say, sipping my drink. "I--my thanks," and I'm not sure exact what to say... "Understand work with beginnings has its decent side too."
"Beginnings?" Underwood says. "What work do you do that allows you to work in something as hopeful as beginnings?"