Grey eyes hidden behind dark lenses fixed somewhere on the horizon behind the bowing man’s head. Owen endured the ritual because it was expected of him. Usually he didn’t mind it. But now, at this moment, having been spied upon in his private, most intimate conversation with his wife, he resented it.
He blinked once which lowered his gaze to the man addressing him with careful attention to terms of respect. Owen kept his face a neutral mask as the man revealed, so very quickly, the nature of his seeking a meeting.
“Don’t waste your breath with meaningless apologies. If you were truly sorry, you wouldn’t have violated the sanctity of the bereaved.” Owen responded petulantly. His words were clipped and carefully enunciated.
Owen’s eyes made a trip south to survey the emptiness of the man’s hands. Hadn’t even bothered to come with a gift or flowers or a note for his wife’s grave as so many citizens who loved her so had done since her untimely death.
A telling tale that emptiness. In due time he would, perhaps, come to know what it meant.
“Luckily for you, I find conspiracy theories quite fascinating.” He let the dead flowers clutched in his fists fall to his side. Loose, dry petals fluttered to the grass underfoot. He wouldn’t let on that he was curious for what the man had to say. Owen already had a notion that his wife’s death had, in fact, been murder.
Not that it mattered to him. No justice he could bring against an attacker would bring his Julianna back. And so, he’d left it alone. Criminals had a way of showing themselves eventually, especially when they had yet to have gained something from their crime.
But he would hear the theory out. He had his own. Let's compare notes.
“Let’s hear what you have to say. Walk and talk. Graveyards are for the dead and the mourning. And you, clearly, are neither.” There was more than a hint of disapproval in his observation that the man had failed to pay his proper respects.
He blinked once which lowered his gaze to the man addressing him with careful attention to terms of respect. Owen kept his face a neutral mask as the man revealed, so very quickly, the nature of his seeking a meeting.
“Don’t waste your breath with meaningless apologies. If you were truly sorry, you wouldn’t have violated the sanctity of the bereaved.” Owen responded petulantly. His words were clipped and carefully enunciated.
Owen’s eyes made a trip south to survey the emptiness of the man’s hands. Hadn’t even bothered to come with a gift or flowers or a note for his wife’s grave as so many citizens who loved her so had done since her untimely death.
A telling tale that emptiness. In due time he would, perhaps, come to know what it meant.
“Luckily for you, I find conspiracy theories quite fascinating.” He let the dead flowers clutched in his fists fall to his side. Loose, dry petals fluttered to the grass underfoot. He wouldn’t let on that he was curious for what the man had to say. Owen already had a notion that his wife’s death had, in fact, been murder.
Not that it mattered to him. No justice he could bring against an attacker would bring his Julianna back. And so, he’d left it alone. Criminals had a way of showing themselves eventually, especially when they had yet to have gained something from their crime.
But he would hear the theory out. He had his own. Let's compare notes.
“Let’s hear what you have to say. Walk and talk. Graveyards are for the dead and the mourning. And you, clearly, are neither.” There was more than a hint of disapproval in his observation that the man had failed to pay his proper respects.
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