...A long time ago, a star fell from the sky near my homeland.
[ Carefully, she places the stem down back in the still open box between them, expression sobering. ]
Everyone in the village gathered near our sacred wisteria, praying hard for salvation. But the star carried a strange substance from beyond. Most couldn't withstand being exposed to it... but the tree and I could. We became... intertwined, then.
[ She laces her fingers together, trying to communicate to him that amidst the chaos of the disaster, being exposed to that strange substance had allowed the tree to swallow her, in a sense, preserving her in the truck away from the rest of the carnage. ]
I'm not sure about the "why" it happened to me... [ of all people. ] But, I know that it was how I survived that night.
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...A long time ago, a star fell from the sky near my homeland.
[ Carefully, she places the stem down back in the still open box between them, expression sobering. ]
Everyone in the village gathered near our sacred wisteria, praying hard for salvation. But the star carried a strange substance from beyond. Most couldn't withstand being exposed to it... but the tree and I could. We became... intertwined, then.
[ She laces her fingers together, trying to communicate to him that amidst the chaos of the disaster, being exposed to that strange substance had allowed the tree to swallow her, in a sense, preserving her in the truck away from the rest of the carnage. ]
I'm not sure about the "why" it happened to me... [ of all people. ] But, I know that it was how I survived that night.