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| + | In the nether realm without an earth or sky,\\ | ||
| + | A flower named <color # | ||
| + | its beauty witnessed by but one soul. | ||
| + | |||
| + | //<color # | ||
| + | The younger sister scores through the blooming <color # | ||
| + | Never finding that promised dark blue sprig. | ||
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| + | She silently made up her mind.\\ | ||
| + | //<color # | ||
| + | And save the dawns for her."</ | ||
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| + | The younger sister gazes at the Moon Cocoon high above,\\ | ||
| + | And plans a trip to the mortal realm, a distant flurry. | ||
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| + | A bard once sung to musical notes: | ||
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| + | //<color # | ||
| + | The long hand of shadow will retain the dead behind their gates."</ | ||
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| + | The giant dragon born from the Moon Cocoon\\ | ||
| + | Willingly offered itself as the enduring barge of the River of Souls. | ||
| + | |||
| + | //<color # | ||
| + | {{ : | ||
| + | That price had long been paid for you by someone else."</ | ||
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| + | The dragon lowers its long neck,\\ | ||
| + | And places the girl on its back.\\ | ||
| + | In slumber, she will unknowingly greet\\ | ||
| + | The dawn of her rebirth. | ||
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| + | The dragon flaps its wings,\\ | ||
| + | In the chilly gloom of the floating dead, upstream. | ||
| + | |||
| + | Ferrying from purity into grime,\\ | ||
| + | Going from silence into roaring boom. | ||
| + | |||
| + | The souls of countless poets flounder past,\\ | ||
| + | Their distant rhymes endless like foams: | ||
| + | |||
| + | //<color # | ||
| + | {{ : | ||
| + | For to look toward the land of mortals, is in itself turning back."</ | ||
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| + | In this pale dawn,\\ | ||
| + | The sun's first rays light the night ablaze.\\ | ||
| + | So the dragon crosses the Sea of Souls,\\ | ||
| + | Onto the shores of life, and strands itself in the gleam. | ||
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| + | {{ : | ||
| + | We know not where\\ | ||
| + | These stories arise.\\ | ||
| + | They are scattered across the shallows with the waves. | ||
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| + | The confession the girl made before her departure, | ||
| + | Still echoes in the tides' heaves. | ||
| + | |||
| + | //<color # | ||
| + | May it find a soul to remember.</ | ||
| + | |||
| + | //<color # | ||
| + | And I've already penned my last stroke."</ | ||
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