It's not unreal to me yet, though it might get that way soon. It still feels very real. And not even horrible -- the dead are just the dead. I am convinced that the living people they once where would have been proud of their protective bodies hoodwinking their murderers to save someone else. [.] But it's not civilized. There is something indecent about it -- really foully indecent. The civilized Rose-person in me, who still seems to exist beneath the layers of filth, knows this. [.] I have become so indifferent about the dead.

Rose Under Fire