Eulogy For Grandmother

It was odd for the first in my life my grandmother and grandfather acted like they had wanted me to be apart of the family and I couldn't help feeling then and now that if they acted like that before I might have been sad that I was leaving them.

I was allowed to pick whatever we ate, my grandmother brought the most expensive dress she could find for me wear to go into the water and my cousins made the effort to talk to me that week whenever my aunt Sandy and uncle John brought them to the house.

The night before I was due to bathe in the water my aunt Sandy and I walked through the fields near the house.

"Promise me Emily you won't throw everything away like April did" aunt Sandy said, I tried to walk in sync with her. " Her voice was

"What was mother like?".

Aunt Sandy let out a chuckle like my question was amusing for some reason, "What I remember about her she was very strong willed and had a gift for finding trouble".

I wanted to hear more than that about my mother but she said no more maybe she really didn't remember much about my mother she been four when my mother was chosen and only saw her again the day she left temple and when I was born.

When we were walking back to the house my aunt grabbed my hand and squeezed before saying "I know you won't us Emily and you probably believe that we won't miss you but the truth is all of us love you. We could never show it openly because in the eyes of everyone here you shouldn't have been allowed to stay but I want you to always remember that we do love you".

That was the last conversation I had with my aunt.

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Yam is made up six parts the City where we live, the water were it is illegal to go to without being with one of the elders, the temple that surrounded by a woods, the fort were only those of been in the water are allowed to go; the place were the elders live and the dark