User blog comment:HalointheSkye/Volume 3 Chapter 12 - End of the Beginning/@comment-26989559-20160215103158/@comment-26397825-20160215131502

Except all eveidence points to Pyrrha being dead before the cremation. So she executes her (because there is no other word for shooting a downed and defenseless opponent at point blank range in cold blood), then cremates her. An execution and then a funeral pyre, not both rolled into one.