The challenge of Friday Fictioneers is to write a 100-word story in response to a weekly photo prompt chosen by our host Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. Follow the link to her blog for more information. This week I have written a two-part story in an effort to catch up on recent photo prompts I have missed. This is Part 2. Part 1 can be found here. Thank you to all who take the time to read, like, or comment.

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Lavender and Sandalwood (Part 2)

She had not lied. She would be with him until the end. That end would come soon: he barely satiated her hunger anymore. With no tears to weep for him, she knelt and kissed the ground, soaking her face in the dew-sodden grass.

Dawn was creeping over the horizon as she plucked at the lavender bush. The sun’s burning kiss was the only thing she could still feel, but she knew she mustn’t linger.

She sprinkled the lavender into the coffin, an ornate sandalwood piece commissioned by a former lover. She was grateful: decay was a difficult scent to mask.