9
Saying Goodbye
They wasted no time on Beverlee's funeral, same as with Baelin.
No sense in putting it off any longer than necessary, especially with the bodies in the state they were. And so that very evening, Helena led a long procession—almost as long as the procession for the men who died fighting Isenholf—down to the docks, where her sister's body lay wrapped in clean cloths that covered her from head to toe in a small boat.
The cloths were a necessity because of the state her body was in. But they were not unheard-of in any case. Some families preferred to look on their dead one last time, but many did not. And sometimes there was enough of a delay before the ceremony that decay began to set in, and it would not do for the guests to see the deceased in that state. So no comments
