"I think it helps more than a little," Serena says, thinking beyond the immediacy of Edith's passing and back to her parents and siblings. The sole survivor of the tragedy, she'd been the only one to stand at the funeral and represent a world of grief. Her memories are faint but she's certain that the undertaker had offered a kind word or two at a time when nobody had known what to say. When she hadn't known what to say. "The funeral... business was very different where I'm from, though."