openterrain: (ʙʀɪɴɢɪɴɢ darkness from above)
Jean Kirstein ([personal profile] openterrain) wrote in [community profile] trustfell2016-01-01 10:47 pm

SENDOFF.

[ Does it ever stop?

Maybe not, but Jean doesn't actually have an issue with that. The immediately visible zombies have been taken care of and the group is ready for any others that might shamble their way. It's still the dead of the night as Jean moves about the town square, gathering up every last bit of dry wood he can find and building up the basis of what could become an impressive bonfire. Strangely, he leaves it unlit - or perhaps not so strangely, since it really should be time to move on.

Instead, Jean goes back - back into the school and through the hallways and down to the courtroom. He makes several side trips as he goes, gathering up rope and matches and spare blankets along the way. He's not particularly surprised to see that Kimblee's corpse has been a bit abused since they last left him, nor is he depressed or angry or pleased.

Kimblee got what he deserved.

Jean takes the time to carefully wrap Kimblee's corpse in the spare sheets and secure them with rope, more out of consideration for the more squeamish of his fellow survivors than any respect for Observant himself. Wrapping him up is pretty simple, luckily. Dragging him back up the stairs and all the way over to the bonfire is simple, but not easy. He's a big, heavy bastard as it turns out and the very first hints of dawn are glimmering on horizon by the time Jean finally gets him over to the bonfire. Unsurprisingly, Jean will happily accept any offers to help with the body moving process.

There's no pomp or ceremony to Kimblee's 'funeral'. There's no moment of silence, no carefully selected works, not even a few personal possessions tossed onto the pyre with their tormentor of the past two months. Jean simply kindles a few sparks at the base of pyre, and then steps back to watch the flames grow into a blaze and consume flesh and wood alike.

... He does take care to stand upwind of the pyre, however. Burning bodies aren't exactly a pleasant scent.
]
crimsonchin: swimming through time (And again hypnotically)

[personal profile] crimsonchin 2016-01-03 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, you shouldn't come to me, honestly. Last thing I want is for you to hop in a portal and get lost in the dilapidated red fucking wasteland I call home. ...Even the air is stagnant there. So if anything, it'd have to be me dropping by you, and maybe I'll end up chaperoning.
hashtagafreakingghost: but i don't know how (i wish that i could fake it)

[personal profile] hashtagafreakingghost 2016-01-04 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
Yeeeah... Uh, no offense, but I don't think I'd like to...well, it doesn't sound like my speed? We'd both have to go through someone else, though. You don't have a viable world-to-world transportation, right? And, well, you're all kind of...busy, there.

[The apocalypse and all.]
crimsonchin: (why don't you grow up and see?)

[personal profile] crimsonchin 2016-01-11 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
If we did, everyone would've probably jumped ship by now. But if someone figured it out in Rick's world, and we have things like Evas? I'd argue it's really just a matter of time, isn't it?

When my fight finishes, and I am going to finish it, I'll make sure you know one way or another.
hashtagafreakingghost: ("two of them are sisters")

[personal profile] hashtagafreakingghost 2016-01-17 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
...I believe you will. If anyone could...

Well, when the time comes, we can...catch up. You can give me all the highlights.
crimsonchin: (Can you even say the formula)

[personal profile] crimsonchin 2016-01-18 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
You'll have more to tell than I will, I'm certain.

I want to hear about all of them. ...Your dates, that is.
hashtagafreakingghost: nothing like yours now (look in my eyes‚ boy)

[personal profile] hashtagafreakingghost 2016-01-30 10:51 am (UTC)(link)
O- oh... Well, I don't think I'll be going out to the movies any time soon, more like a- two-for-one at the- um, shrink, or something.

[She seems more than a little embarrassed; probably trying to keep herself on the train of thought that everyone's fine and alive, still.]