Koi sat beside the Kasuga with a happy smile, she liked him a lot. More than she expected. More than she wanted to admit but for a spell, she sat and told a story.
She told a story as the afternoon began to fade into evening, her beautiful eyes and face captivating as she begun to perform for the Kasuga, a special performance that'll never be told to anyone except trusted friends or lovers.
The story was a sad one.
She told a story about a Dragonfly Moth, fierce and powerful but honoured for his service. He was beautiful with multitude of colours of lilacs, silvers and hues of green. Over years though he grew weaker as the Earth drained away from him and he could not catch the air kami in his lungs until a winter came and he was returned to the fire kami.
She spoke how the Mother Moth, a gnarled old rotten thing that appeared beautiful from the outsidr but as she flapped her wings she grew twisted with grief and madness. Her colours ridden with rot, and moudl. Koi whispered of the harmed the Mother delievered, she struck her with raging storms that tore the little Moth before she knew to fly.
Eventually, the Moth went to school to learn to study, but even there the pressure to become perfect. To rise above others in her class, weights stones upon stones upon her that nearly broke her back.
Years went by and the conditions only got worse, until the Moth broke snapping the connection from the Mother Moth as she slipped into the realm of Yume-do.
Koi paused for a moment as she spoke and closed her eyes trying, trying to remember something from her time in Yume-do.
She told of a land filled with floating lands from all walks of life, unbound by the earth kami and free to float as it pleases descending and rising like the tides of the ocean but never colliding. They were filled with lush vegetation, deep rivers filled with fish, and playful animals of undescribable forms. Monkeys mixed with hedgehogs, and with green strips. Small dragons the size of chopsticks with small horns that when they walked they created clouds that raised leaves. Koi described her own version of Yume-do as if she was there in that moment, passionately holding out for Yoshi to see, to taste and to enjoy.
Koi paused and told how the little Moth was overwhelmed in this world for she had never done this before, she'd only imagined it in her head a thousand times as the Sensi Moth's instructed. So she sat, and cried and couldn't breath for in her pain as the weight she carried from her Mother Moth crushed her her lungs didn't work.
Koi choked up a little as she spoke but regained her composure after a moment.
Koi told of a creature larger than an orange tabby cat, with moth like wings and little fuzzy antennas came flying to the little Moth and called itself Allul.
Allul, Koi described, was an old Baku spirit that watched as something wrong happened to its siblings and needed to meet the little Moth to give her courage, and hope, and wisdom to know that she can overcome this pain. She can overcome her Mother's rage, and matter. The spirit licked her eye, as she described it, uplifting her Mother's burden and granting the antidote to the Little Moth suffering before sleep took the Little Moth back to the land of the living.
As she finished, she just sat in silence with the Kasuga and enjoyed just existing with him.
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