Word Count: 36,022
Summary of Events:
Ivy went to visit Thomas' grave. Gabriel saw her and decided to go talk to her. Ivy wasn't pleased by the visit and by what Gabriel tried to offer as comfort to her and left. Gabriel felt badly for her and decided to go read up what the Bible had to say about loss. Ivy went to visit Thomas' grave again and Gabriel came; she continued to be disagreeable and even kicked Gabriel in the shin repeatedly before leaving once again. Gabriel got ice for his swollen shin and worked to convince Mrs. Goddard his leg wouldn't be broken. Ivy went to visit Thomas' grave again, having gone unbothered by Gabriel of late, and thought about the unfairness of Thomas' demise.
Excerpt of the Day:
"And it seemed that someone, whose name happened to be God, didn't want her to be happy, because if He would've wanted her to be happy then Thomas would still be here and she wouldn't be sitting beside a grave thinking all of these wishful thoughts.
She wouldn't have been condemned to unhappiness if God wanted her to be happy, she was more than certain of it. Not that she saw why God would want her to be unhappy when He seemed more than willing to let other people be happy. What was wrong with her?
If she couldn't be happy, then why could anyone else be? It didn't seem particularly fair at all that she should be deprived of all of her happiness while everyone else was able to enjoy things and experience joy.
Ivy quickly raised her head, certain she'd heard something. She found that, indeed, she had. She'd heard Mr. Raider ducking under the aspens that surrounded and peacefully shaded the cemetery.
Half of her wanted to run, but half of her wanted to stay and see what sort of infuriating things he would say today. It appeared that the half of her that wanted her to stay was the stronger half, being as she didn't move.
It looked like Mr. Raider was favouring the leg she'd kicked slightly, but not too much, and she caught herself feeling grateful, not that she was sure at all why she would feel grateful. He was itinerant and infuriating, why should she be glad he wasn't hurting?
Mr. Raider had a long and brisk stride that covered ground quickly, bringing him to the grave swiftly. He then settled down comfortably cross-legged across from her, giving an acknowledging nod, but not saying anything.
If he wasn't going to say anything, she wasn't going to say anything. She didn't want him here, so she wasn't going to talk to him. She was going to stay here and think about Thomas, and the injustice of his death.
She was going to think about how cruel it was of God to have taken Thomas from her, and how unfair it was that He seemed so determined to make her life miserable when she hadn't done anything to deserve it.
And Thomas hadn't done anything to deserve dying either. He hadn't done anything wrong. He was a good man who prayed regularly, confessing any sins, and asking for their forgiveness. Why should he be killed for no good reason?
Tears filled her eyes as she stared at the dirt that covered her fiancé. There was no reason for Thomas to have suffered such a premature demise, and there was no reason that her fiancé should've been so unjustly taken from her either.
Neither one of them — much less any of the other Bramwells — had done anything to deserve this cruel robbery of Thomas' life. She couldn't imagine how God could possibly take pleasure in ruining people's lives."
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