Does this box really work? . . .

Fine.

Who brought us here? Show yourself!

I don't want to return, but I have to . . . and this girl wants to.

Show yourself, and take us back!

[The video comes on with a jolt, obviously having fallen from a height.]

[The sound of rain is loud, and the haze about the camera parts to show a man in a teal kimono standing somewhere in Xanadu, under the shade of a covered bridge spanning a creek. He is staring out into the rain, his eyes pensive, brooding. In one hand is his axe, and in the ( Read more... )

( [A wisp of memory || Her flame-patterned kimono is bright in his dreams.] )

( [private to self || unhackable] )