It was a beautiful autumn day.
The sun was shining, the leaves were orange, red, yellow, and occasionally brown.
But it was a very hard day on everyone within the castle, plus a few people from the kingdom.
Only a week or two ago, the captain of the guard had passed away after a sudden heart attack, and today was the funeral.
Rapunzel and Eugene were now home after a little bit of a delay- something about the queen of Arendelle and a big snowstorm- and the funeral was allowed to commence.
"It's just... I still don't understand exactly what happened and why, Raps," Cass asked as her best friend helped her into her black funeral attire, "I just don't understand how or why my father..."
Rapunzel rubbed her friend's back sympathetically. "People... people come and go. And... sometimes we never know how. Or why. But... it's a part of life."
Cass nodded somberly before facing herself in the mirror.
"It's a part of life," she repeated to herself.
"Exactly. People are born. People die. It- it just happened to be your father's time, I suppose. But. But it's okay to be sad about it. I mean, if I lost one of my parents, I would be devastated."
Cass nodded again, sighing.
She hated this, but it was the truth.
And she had to live with it.
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That afternoon, the funeral procession made its way through the streets of Corona.
Everyone- and by that, it was literally everyone- came by to pay their respects.
Pretty soon, some rain was falling as the funeral actually took place.
And that was the last time that Cassandra ever saw her father in the flesh.
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{Sorry for the shortest, crappiest part yet.}
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