She wandered forwards, looking up at the shrine.<br/><br/>The eyes from the tall bronze statue stared down at her, she dragged her eyes down the altar passing incense, and iconography before coming to rest at the bottom, several small candles were burning on a low rock shelf, raised only a few inches from the floor.<br/><br/>"I-I'm sorry I haven't talked to you for so long..." she small girl whispered.<br/><br/>"I didn't know, really, I just-just, I just thought it'd be a few hours, a day maybe, I-I didn't mean to ignore you."<br/><br/>Tears welled up in her eyes and began running down her face, retracing the paths they had taken at the funeral.<br/><br/>"I-I-I" the girl's sobbing drowned out her words as her entire body shook.<br/><br/>This carried on for several minutes, the candle flame flickering away in front of her, she eventually slowed down, her body becoming still.<br/><br/>As the tears dripped onto the floor the young girl spoke again, the noise she let out a barely audible whisper from her lips "I'm sorry I left you alone..."