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No speeches, but tradition. Lots of tradition. Which is what a 500 year old family would have for these situations. Pipers and carrying the casket, and the great boat journey home all are the culmination of Molyneux funerals before. Nina, though a Molyneux, was not significant to the family in the way Amalia or Rose would have been, and so she gets a distilled version. And, of course, a stuffy party afterwards. Galle and Cait seem content to blow it off, and actually seek justice for those who wronged the family.
No, Milly, there’s never a good time to leave a funeral. Both Galle and Xiphos would have stayed at Nina’s side until the sun burned out, but Galle is angry, and he wants to confront Nina’s murderers, and grave side is not the way to do that. Not that Xiphos isn’t angry; she’s lost, as I imagine we’d all be. Galle has a sense of purpose. She has, at the moment, nothing.
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I am sad all the same. :( Maybe not so much about the passing of Nina, but for the people left behind.