It appeared as though the skies were sending an ill-portent when Susan came out of the hospital, Friday morning at around three o'clock. Thunder and lightning were playing across the skies dancing from cloud to cloud and lighting up the undersides of those clouds providing an ominous glow to the world below.
Susan managed to get to the main gate...just as a blinding pain struck her chest and she crumpled to the ground just inside the gate of their home. Evidently she'd been struck by lightning and realized, just before everything went black, that her heart had stopped...
That was where River found her, laying, crumpled on the masonry walkway. A clap of thunder heralded Grim's arrival, while Greta and River sobbed, mourning the loss of Susan, their step-mother-in-law.
...but Susan had known that she'd lived a good long life, that she'd gotten to see Blair and her family again...and well, she was ready to go to what awaited next. And well, her family and her husband were left to mourn her passing.
Life was fleeting and they all knew it. Moving Susan's headstone into the family graveyard was the next task of the day, but afterwards, they decided that well, despite their family's loss, they needed to take time to celebrate life and head to the spring festival...and knew that that was what Susan would have wanted; for them to realize that life went on.
So in order to celebrate Susan's departing this life, they all decided to partake in a "pie-eating contest" - don't know how to feel about THAT one.
At about the thirty minute mark of wolfing down pies, Tatsuyoshi said, "Flark it" and quit. and well...it wasn't certain who won the pie-eating contest because...
Braden realized that the pie-eating contest was a bad idea especially on a spring day which was pushing 24 degrees celcius.
Yay, nothing says you lost the pie-eating contest like upchucking your guts out on the ground. Probably might want to go easy on that stomach, eh, Braden?
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