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[box][align=center][b]Independent Athletes from Quebec (IAQ) - World Cup 96 Team[/b]
WINDOW 7 - v. Doubeia, @ Vyktoria[/align]

[b]26-PLAYER ENTRY[/b]

[b]GOALKEEPERS (3):[/b]
Goh Yeong-Rok (Montreal City), Marianne Oh-Ntare (Litala '93, MYT), Innes Sheppard (Urrheddiao, CMT)

[b]DEFENDERS (9):[/b]
Ghislaine Barbieri (Anormalies, CMT), Alain Delisle (Mipojoseon), Kira Dormann (FC Inter Nantwich, TMB), Joo Hyeong-Seok (Olympia Arkintoofle, SRS), Kim Gyeong-Seok (Urrheddiao, CMT), Drake Lokombo-Ssektioleko (Lakewood United, TMB), Alexis Samurtok (Parakleion Firebirds FC, TKT), Serguei Sapozhkov (Daedonggang 3.26), Frederic Yabusele (Atletik, MYT)

[b]MIDFIELDERS (7):[/b]
Cesar Icardi-Rabiot (Jinja City FC, BNJ), Maude Le Tissier (Whitepool, SYL), Jordyn Mah (Océanic C.F. Langlois, KSK), Samuel McTavish (Lakewood City, TMB), Camille Oh-Chainey (CSKA Quebec), Pyo Seung-Hye (Avondale City, SYL), Juan Aurelio Redondo (Montreal Koreana)

[b]FORWARDS (7):[/b]
Billie Blue Hamisi (Urrheddiao, CMT), Clyde Han (Wansan Noksaekjeonsa), Anna Korniloff-Kouyate (Real Santa Mordana, KYP), Josephine Moreille-Park (Ceramadhion Lynx FC, TKT), Corneille-Theophile Poulin (Avondale City, SYL), Amina Salihamidzic Beckie (Frenei Tor, CMT), Otis Tekarhonhonte (Eivora Athletic FC, TKT)[/box]


[align=center][size=150]Three Weddings and a Funeral[/size]

PART 7/8 - The Funeral[/align]

Part 7 - [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSkA61esq_c][u]4:44[/u][/url]

The rainy weather remained on the subsequent hours after the Funeral Mass and the subsequent family-only burial, which lasted no less than an hour but no more than three, with the visitors to famous principality of Montevicio left no less grim by the weather that had greeted them in a Poseidon's ruptuous greeting. It was not one that people would expect for a funeral of a local Montevician, especially a sporting icon whose bloodlines brought out sun like Theo-Alexandre Pinson, whose father was Azurean and mother Cardenaoan, but one could not ignore the possibilities that perhaps the skies, for all the cruelties it has been known for, too cried over the tragic nature of his passing.

Claire Lundrigan stayed in Montevicio, with her flight back to Twin Cities with her parents not to be set in another two days. Her parents, singer-songwriter Eileen de Ramaut (Plongeon) and author Sir. Asher, had their separate matters to attend the following day, with her mother meeting her manager, Janet Mullen-Baker who was now in her seventies, and her father having a light visit with Ian Lautner and Heo Myeong-Shin. It was rather unfortunate circumstances in which the friends have been brought back in one again, in a bloody funeral no less, but it was nonetheless a pleasure to see all of them together for the first time in five years, perhaps a reminder to when they were all younger and had relatively little to no reason worrying about the deathly shadows nearing them.

Oddly enough, it was when Claire Lundrigan had bid her parents a good-bye the following morning at the Midnight Towr, that she noticed how different her parents would have looked. To her, Sir. Asher was always that plain-looking, simply-dressed and reclusive figure who avoided public on his own accord (who in their right mind would refuse Regimbault Prize ceremony?), and Eileen (Plongeon) a long, brunette girl from the pastoral southern Acadie whose plain dresses and bright-coloured sweaters better belonged on a regency or the eighties art-pop scene. The difference between the two of them back at home - keep in mind that it was practically impossible for both to be seen on same city when away, let alone same function - were evident enough for those not familiar with their marriage to be a clear mismatch.

And yet, as she told them to meet at the Hotel for the reception held in memory of the families, Claire noticed the glimpses of her parents' younger selves as they left. Her mother, for most part, had looked very much the same she had remembered with her red sweater and Jeans, perhaps a testament to the consistency that remained on her hands years after.

But her father, who was dressed in a neatly pressed and steamed suit jacket, with a pale dress shirt but without a tie (if there was one thing he held in common with the deceased, this was their dislike of ties), looked like a different figure altogether. Claire could tell from his suit jacket, which looked somewhat unfitting of his age with the style typically preferred by a younger gentilhomme, combined with imagined pounds of flesh and feather on him, Sir. Asher's younger self that had roamed the lights of Joongyeong and hunted the latest stories internationally, without fear and shadows.

Of course, [i]without fear and shadows[/i] weren't exactly the right words to say. In order for him to live without fear and shadows, he had to forget. Well, more like trying to forget, and the ways he had tried to do so in the five-year gap had never really worked out in first place, and had only worsened things for them for time before their unexpected marriage. Now, Claire had been aware that her parents had dated for some time when they were her age right now, and ironically owed towards to Myeong-Yoon's minor fandom (that she nowadays would blame herself over) and Myeong-Shin's brave effort, but had never really tried to fill out the details over the years between their first and second time.

It wasn't that she didn't want to know - Claire was very much right in guessing that it was not short of stories - but the topic itself was such a taboo for her family and their friends, who almost always pitied her mother first before moving onto the father, that she genuinely did not have the dare to ask. This, combined with her awareness in the security presence that had been placed on both Sir. Asher and specifically her, had meant that it was going to be a difficult climb of mountain to be figured out. Even at that moment, right as her parents went their separate ways with a separate cab, the scene was all too noticeable with two security vehicles, one red convertible presumably a local Montevicio police and a black sedan presumably of the Royal Quebecois Police, starting their engines.

Part 8 - [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGTr1T0La-M][u]Rainy Zurich[/u][/url]