The cop cars came and blocked off the road as Clara and the kids huddled close together. But this entire scene was much different to Lance. For his soul was floating above the heads of the cops watching everything with pure glee. He didn't realize that he had died; he thought that it was a game of hide-and-go-seek and Clara got all the kids at the orphanage to pretend to cry to lure him from …showed first 75 words of 357 total…

…showed last 75 words of 357 total…You saved me from what?" Lance shouted but his voice would fall only on the ears of the dead. Lance wept a bit more for a few days watching Clara and a few other people in black cloth set up his funeral. He wept as his body was placed into the wooden casket, he wept as his body was lowered into the ground and watched with red eyes as they buried him, six feet under.