Agnus Dei, qui tollis
peccata mundi,
dona eis requiem.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis
peccata mundi,
dona eis requiem.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis
peccata mundi,
dona eis requiem sempiternam
When River found out that her mother and step-father had passed away so suddenly, she felt gutted - her mother had been the bulwark of her life before her husband had stepped into fill the role and even then, she was the one who River turned to when she needed another female perspective on a certain situation. After all, there were some things that she couldn't turn to her husband. She grieved openly at the graveyard; her husband joined her later on to grieve at her side, because he had lost his uncle at the same time.
Life was fleeting and it struck home even more to River, now that her mother was no longer there that there was no longer any shield between her and the rest of her existence to the barren grave. Her mother was gone, and now it was just her...she was the one who was left...and she now was the go-to person for her daughters - she was now the wise mother to her daughters...the one to give advice; rather than to receive it. Who else could she look to? Susan? Because the only two elders left in the house now were Susan and Yasunobu; Haruo's stepmother and biological father.
Sandi knew what it was like to be an orphan...because she never knew her biological father and her mother and Satoshi, her step-father were both gone. But she comforted River as best that she could.
...and Haruo missed his Uncle Toshiyuki who was another guiding voice that he had relied on when he needed another person, other than his father, to talk to.
Some more bad news on the heel of that was that Caitlin and Masatoshi were going to make their own way now that Jerad and Simone were now of school-age...they were all moving out, so it would now be just Haruo, River, Yasunobu and Susan, at least until the kids came home from CFB Starch Military School.
...and Haruo knew also that his own father's time was short, because he wasn't as energetic as he used to be even though he headed out to the garden to harvest the crops and do what he used to do there. And Haruo knew all too well that eventually, HE would have to take over the work to bring in the crops and let his father know gently that Yasunobu needed to hand over the heavy duty gardening duties to him: shouldering the burden.
Masatoshi didn't display emotion very often, having been brought up in Japan, but he still felt like Toshiyuki was a surrogate father to him after his own father, Funioki, died and even though he hadn't show just how badly it had hit him when he was still living at the house, it still overcame him.
So, Yasunobu spent a lot of time playing the piano...and enjoying himself with little things around the house.
Haruo spent time playing violin outside - he was considerably better, able to play some Bach Violin Concertos.
...and River consoled herself by getting her Logic skill up by playing chess by herself in silent contemplation.
Each of the Chikamori family members grieved in their own way; and each set off on their own road to healing.
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