Miss Rabbit, though eager to return and develop the steel industry, still stayed an extra day in Rock Snow City to attend the funeral of Marquis Kuren.
The next day, as dawn just broke, Hels led the nobles out of the city gates, heading north to the White Pine River, about ten miles from Rock Snow City.
The guards of the Figrola family pushed the ash wooden boat carrying Marquis Kuren's body into the river and piled it with pine resin and branches.
Quintus the High Priest from the Silver Moon Church presided over the funeral for this lord of the western borders himself.
He placed an amulet on the corpse's chest, then began to pray aloud.
The nobles on the riverbank stood in solemn silence, no one speaking.
When the High Priest uttered his final word, Hels stepped forward, took a torch from a guard, and lit the boat, watching it drift downstream.
Under the effect of pine resin and branches, the flames quickly spread and soon engulfed the entire small boat.
