ABASI
Abasi was busy cleaning, a task very important to his work, but one he'd let go lax slightly over the hectic week that it had been. People would not like to see their loved ones in a filthy room, so he made sure to regularly mop the floors, sweep the corners of the ceiling for cobwebs, scrub down the slabs between each resident.
There was only the one body left, for now - some had been treated then given back to families for burial, some had been burnt. The remaining corpse he was only going to keep for one more day; not yet claimed. He'd done his best to keep them clean and presentable, but it seemed likely that whoever this person was, they had been either alone or unlucky enough to have all their relatives die too (after all, some bodies were still trapped under the mud).
A knock at the door caught his attention and he paused in scrubbing down the walls, leaning down to put away his rag back into the bucket of water. Drying his hands on a cloth as he stepped into the front, Abasi nodded professionally at Phoebe, whom he had had to become acquainted to more so than before in the last week. "Good morning. Are there...more to be seen to?" She had rarely come with good news.
There was only the one body left, for now - some had been treated then given back to families for burial, some had been burnt. The remaining corpse he was only going to keep for one more day; not yet claimed. He'd done his best to keep them clean and presentable, but it seemed likely that whoever this person was, they had been either alone or unlucky enough to have all their relatives die too (after all, some bodies were still trapped under the mud).
A knock at the door caught his attention and he paused in scrubbing down the walls, leaning down to put away his rag back into the bucket of water. Drying his hands on a cloth as he stepped into the front, Abasi nodded professionally at Phoebe, whom he had had to become acquainted to more so than before in the last week. "Good morning. Are there...more to be seen to?" She had rarely come with good news.
Do not raise up intimate companions
For nothing is to be gained from them
Let your own heart be watchful over you
