The Wolf and The Dragon (Book 1)

Day of the Departed

Time skip - 2 weeks later

(Part1)

[Lloyd]

I decided to have a farewell service for Harumi on the Day of the Departed.

Her body would be cremated just the day before, and I am the one receiving her ashes.

Everyone's helping me to organise something small but memorable, we are keeping it secret so the media wouldn't invade our privacy. And we can say goodbye to Harumi, not the Quiet One or to the Jade Princess, avoiding remembering her mistakes.

I went back to the hospital only once to visit Iva, she received Harumi heart and she is recovering well, I have spoken to Flynn and invite him and his family to the service. I couldn't find Ruby , she was either not there, or she was busy elsewhere, so I left an envelope to her, with an invite for the service inside.

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Day of the Departed

We started at 4:30 at the Monastery courtyard. Pixal has carefully created a memorial table with flowers and beautiful pictures of the time we had Harumi living in the Bounty with us. I placed the urn of ashes at the centre.

We lighted lanterns and hanged the all around.

Flynn was there with his Family, Iva's mother was also there, Iva was still in the hospital, so she sent a beautiful handmade card explaining what Harumi means to her. There was also beautiful ginger hair, teen girl, that I find out when Flynn introduced me to her, called Jenny, and she had received a kidney from Harumi, allowing her to live without daily medical treatments.

We have music and poetry, Flynn said the most beautiful words any of us could ever say, and then it was my turn. I try to prepare a few words, but in the end, I thought it was not me or her, so left my paper in the pocket, and just said what comes to my mind.

-"Rumi... I am glad we have met, I know we haven't gotten the best side of each other for some time, and believe me, there was nothing in this world I hated more than being her enemy, trust me no one would like that. For quite a while I didn't know if I knew the real Harumi or not. I was very confused... But in the end I made my mind, Harumi was just a girl in need of love... " I pause a bit, to let the notch in my throat to go, and I saw someone standing at the back, a long dark hair, with deep dark blue eyes, I almost did not recognise in a black dress, it was Ruby , her smile to me made my last words to come easy -"somehow Rumi, you brought love to my heart, we shared moments that I will always treasure, and through you I got to know some amazing people that I know will forever be in my heart." - I smile to Ruby and to Flynn, to the ginger girl, and I would have smiled to Iva if she was there.

In the end, Jay walked towards me, I gave him the urn with the ashes, he placed it into his and Nya's invention, a small rocket power to reach above the atmosphere, it had a small camera connected to it, and the images were projected in 2 big screens Zane and Pixal created.

The fireworks display started, with an amazing soundtrack, Cole created, in the background. The grand finale was the rocket with Harumi's ashes inside. It was launched, and through the camera, we saw when it reached the stars, and then it exploded again releasing her ashes because she has always been a star, a supernova, a dangerous and fast, intense, beautiful, eternal sparkling light ... and now she is where she belongs, she has become "Star dusty".

Skylor and Kai were in charge of food and drinks. Everyone raise their glasses for the last farewell.

I went to speak to Ruby, it was almost 3 weeks since I saw her in the hospital last time. She had her hair loose, and I didn't remember having ever seen her like that before. I introduced her to everyone one, Flynn gave her a hug, and I see their relationship has grown a bit since last time. She also knew Jenny, the ginger girl.