Part 2
Dec 02, 2021
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913 A.D. — Rural Ninava
“Tsukuyomi! You silly little boy. What did you do this time?” shouted Hanabira as she took him from the arms of the man that brought him to the farm. He was the town’s blacksmith, a man with ashen hair and leathery tanned skin, still in his working clothes, covered in soot and hints of blood. Mizuki, twelve years old, just one younger than Tsukuyomi, stood next to him. Hanabira unwrapped the dark-red stained cloth bandage around her son’s head and gasped. She immediately ran off, muttering “Oh my boy! Oh my boy! Oh my boy!” like a mantra, and quickly returned with a homemade salve of herbs and oils. She applied it thickly on the boy’s crescent moon shaped gash that ran bloodied along the back of his head, surrounded by his short dark hair. Tsukuyomi looked up at her, still dazed. No wrinkles yet betraying her thirty-eight years of age. She looked angelic to him.
“Who did this?”, Hanabira said to the blacksmith with anguish.
“I have no idea ma’am, I was just working when I heard…”
“He fell from a wall! I was with him. It was an accident. Right Mr. Blacksmith?”, Mizuki nodded at the man.
“But there was no walls where I…”
“Yes there was,” Mizuki smiled at the blacksmith and kept nodding quickly. Fortunately for her, Hanabira was too preoccupied to notice the obvious fabrication.
“Right, right, yes, the wall…”
Hanabira ran inside “Water, I need water! And a bandage! And more salve!” The clattering inside the house was loud enough to startle some nearby birds into flight.
Tsukuyomi softly grabbed Mizuki’s hand. “You saw it too, right?” Tsukuyomi’s eyes glazed over with a twinge of fear as he remembered.
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