
A Funeral
When the bodies of Dark-Male-Human and Red-Female-Human disappeared, Sel was unsurprised. Human Magic-Users had created a spell that would take corpses of Human Magic-Users to their final resting place long ago. It had taken several high-level Human Magic-Users to make sure the spell would hold and to make sure it would not work on humans that didn't have magic. The spell only came into play if the corpse was left where it was for too long, or if the place the corpse was was very hard or impossible to get to. Dark-Male-Human and Red-Female-Human had made their house impossible to get into if you weren't given the secret of the location by the Secret Keeper. The Secret Keeper for the house was the strange Male-Rat-Human. Sel did not call him that because he could turn into a rat but because he looked like a cross between a rat and a human.
After feeding her new kitten, Sel went out of the house and into the place where the dead humans were. She followed the faint scent of Dark-Male-Human and Red-Female-Human until she was sure she had reached them. Sel placed a rat down on the stone box their bodies were in. Sel knew that humans often gave flowers as offerings but she thought it was better to give something that you valued because it showed that you cared enough about someone that you would sacrifice something you valued.
Sel also believed that it was important to give offerings that the people being given the offerings would like so she also placed down a cloth that she had seen Red-Female-Human decorate with pictures of dragons, merpeople and fairies. She had done it with a small metal stick and purple, black and red thread. Sel had not brought all of the cloths that Red-Female-Human had decorated because she wanted her kitten to have things that had belonged to his human parents.
Sel stayed by the stone box for a few minutes before she went back to the house and her kitten. He was asleep when she found him. When he was older, Sel would take him to his parents but for now he was too young to understand that they were gone forever and wouldn't know what the stone box was or what it held.
Later, he would know and understand and she would take him there.