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Fyra and Echo began to cover the body up with dirt once Willow was inside. Sweeping up the bloody dust, the sisters sat next to the finished grave.
As the threesome trudged up the mountainside, Willow's blood made a steady crimson trail on the path. Fyra didn't notice it, and was instead drawn to the intense beauty. She had never been this far up the mountain; although Willow had told her about it, along with detailed instructions on how to get there, it was as different as black and white. Willow's description had made the place seem like just a random mountain among others just like it, but in reality it was heavenly. Slate gray mountains with blinding white snow-caps touched the vibrant blue sky at the end of an expanse of bright green grasses and vast taiga.
"Is this it?" Echo asked Cody softly, looking back at the he-wolf with gentle amber eyes.
As Cody's eyes fell upon the landscape before him, memories came crashing over him like a tidal wave. He remembered the first day he and Willow had come out here, and hunted that deer together. How he wished he could go back to that day with her; before Kodiak pulled his stunt that started the whole battle, before he'd fallen in love with her... before... before...
He was so wrapped up in his thoughts that he almost didn't hear Echo's question. "Yes." His voice was barely a whisper. His dull, gray gaze looked up at the sky. This is gonna hurt so much... until I meet you again in the Pack of Lupin, Willow...
Fyra staked out a spot that looked out into the endless expanse of earth and sky, where the sun would set later that day. "Right here," she murmured, "is perfect."
"Perfect," Cody murmured, and he began to dig.
Fyra and Echo followed suit and began to dig furiously, as if something were timing them. Dust began to coat their pelts and cover the puddles of blood, leaving a slimy mess at the gravesite. Fyra surveyed the work, nodding. This hole was big enough for Willow and deep enough that her body wouldn't easily be dug up. "Alright. Put 'er in."
Cody gently pulled Willow's body up, and nudged her inside.