The quartet followed his instructions. As they walked, Deke said quietly, “My bet is, most of the graves have been here for a long time from the fact that the majority of them are overgrown with grass and weeds. Kind of sad when you think about it, that no one cares.”
“It was like this when my friends and I used to sneak over the wall late at night,” Rory said. “It made it seem even spookier.”
“I can imagine,” Deke replied as they turned onto the path the gatekeeper said would take them to the graves. “There.” He pointed to two new, simple headstones directly ahead of them.
Molly slowly walked over and laid the flowers down. “Just their names,” she said sadly.
Deke rested his hand on her shoulder. “Since they were undoubtedly buried by the city, I’m not surprised. Maybe, when all this
