Chapter 198 - Alice

“And so we say our goodbye to Amber Dawsey, gone so soon, but with the knowledge that the Lord has plans for her in his kingdom.” the pastor said, his voice calm and almost diplomatic, probably because it was not the first funeral he had performed in which the deceased had so few people willing to mourn her departure “Please, may you lower the coffin.”

As Amber's only family, Alice had been in the front pew throughout the wake, but now they had reached the cemetery, she had allowed herself to stay a little distant while her only cousin was placed in that deep grave.

The normal tradition among the Dawseys would be to bury her near her grandfather, as he had been the last to die, but most of High Society were speculating that Alice would place her in some cemetery somewhere, almost as a pauper. Alice, however, had done neither. Amber was