Her aunt was sitting tall with her shoulders back, a sad little frown on her face. As Gale's only offspring, she was placed in the first seat of the first row, with her aunt to the right of her, holding her hand the entire time. Sitting through the funeral service was painful for the twelve-year-old.
Alice spent her days hiding away in the spare room of the old house, often accompanied by the family pet, Courage. They were the only closest living relatives she had, especially since she had no father to fall back on. Her Aunt Muriel had picked her up from school and took her to the middle of Nowhere, where the elderly woman and her husband, Eustace, lived. Loneliness and grief were all that remained. The news had numbed Alice to the core all feeling had left her and had yet to return. She was dead before emergency crews could reach the accident site. There were no safety restraints on the vehicle, and so her mother had fallen off ahead of the vehicle, and was ultimately crushed by it. Her mother had been returning home from her shift at Memorial Hospital, using the DexLabs bus sliders as she always did, when the vehicle fell off its railing. Alice had been in her third period class when she was called into Principal Goodvibes' office to be given the news by Officer Valerosa. It had happened on a Monday only three weeks into spring semester at Pokey Oaks Junior High. Gale Spacebyte's coffin lower into the ground. Sitting perfectly still in a simple black dress and matching black flats, Alice watched Dr.
But Alice wasn't frightened, and today wasn't typical. On a typical day, Alice Spacebyte would be frightened of the place, even if she was walking on the other side of the street. The perpetual gray clouds hung over Eternal Meadow's cemetery like a blanket, creating an eerie atmosphere that sent shivers down the spines of even the bravest souls.
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