Ashyard

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Janus became aware that the snow-covered gardens were around the path were marked with stones: regular slabs of marble or granite, each one carefully cleared of snow. Marker stones. Not a park at all, then, but an ashyard, where the cremated remains of the deceased become food for the gardens. One dies so others may live. It was part of the old Lightbringer mantra.

A Lightbringer Christmas Carol (Stave V)