N.B. This is an idea for a scene in a story I'm writing. It's still in the roughest of the rough drafts, but I thought I would submit it anyway.
The snow lay over the graveyard like a linen blanket. Soft flakes drifted down from the grey clouds. She stood over the grave, the fresh earth not yet interred with snow. Her gloves hands delicately traced the outline of his name on the marble tombstone, a slab of bright white light in the sea of weathered and cracked monuments. Her knees buckled from under her, and she fell to the ground, her knees breaking the thin layer of frost that was beginning to form. She gently scooped up a handful of the dark brown dirt, and held it in her palm. The rising wind picked it up and carried the dirt into the sky, the small flecks of darkness rapidly disappearing from sight. Her raven black hair was caught on the breeze as well, whipping across her face. She blinked, surprised to find tears streaming down her face.
She didn't cry. She never cried. She quickly mastered her emotions, letting her gaze turn back to stone, though there was nobody there to see her. She rose to her feet, brushing down her jeans. She turned and walked away, a white ghost amid the rows of silent, buried corpses. At the wrought iron gates that marked the entrance to the cemetery, she turned back for the first time. The marble easily drew her eye, it almost seemed to radiate light. She smiled slightly, and sighed.
'Goodbye.'
Then she turned around and walked out of the cemetery. She did not look back again.
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