They were dirty from his task and crusted with blood from the rocks within the earth which had scraped them. Though he knew it was past time for him return to face his punishment, he couldn't bear the thought of leaving her on this uninhabited world.
'As alone dead as you had ever been during your life.'
After he dug into the clay and stone of the ground, he gently wrapped her in his robes, laid her body into the soil and covered her with the earth.
He then allowed himself to weep before casting himself out to find a grave marker and a weed which bore a small white flower upon it which would grow over her to tell all creatures of any world where she lay.
Now, naked but for his small clothes, he rolled his eyes closed and then opened them so he could look up to the sky.
Another night at his Lady's side, he decided.
And who, honestly, would miss him?"
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