Sorrow and loss

"Are we late? Have they started?"

"The boring part should have been over by now."

"Hun? Does that mean we are late!?"

He didn't like being late. He didn't like being right on time for something either since he believed on time was also late, so he preferred being early for everything.

Even for their first date, she remembered how he had reached the venue an hour before their decided time… if she didn't practically live in that cafe, she would not even have known that he was so early for their meeting…

"Relax dude. The mayor would obviously talk about the great loss of the town, the deaths of the people, and sad stuff like that.

The contribution rewards are something that's generally left for the end of such sad events."

She knew how these things proceed from her experience.

There was a certain kind of sad speech that the mayor would give at the start of the speech, and it would mostly be dedicated to the people of the town.