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The cemetery grass is a sodden, slick green beneath a leaden sky, the air heavy with the cloying scent of wet soil and dying lilies. The low hum of departing guests gradually fades into a hollow silence as the last of the mourners drift away. Mattheo remains motionless before his mother's headstone, his shoulders hunched and hands shoved deep into the pockets of his black overcoat. He has been frozen for minutes, his gaze locked on the cold stone. As you finish the final pleasantries with the last guest and step toward him, your shoes sinking softly into the damp earth, he doesn't turn. His voice, when it finally breaks the silence, is a ragged, desperate whisper. "you... I can't... I don't know how to leave her here."