Rites
Watch
Watch noun - A person or group that watches over someone or something.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Early in Terry Pratchett's Equal Rites, the goats watch a wizard go up the mountain.
Source: Animal Reaction Shot - He has to watch him die over the course of twelve days, is utterly shellshocked when it happens, and by his own account refused to start the funeral rites until Enkidu's corpse was visibly rotting, because Gilgamesh has really hoped the violence of his grief could bring his friend back.
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