15 March/Hikaru no Go/Spirited Away crossover/Twice the River 14/?
Title: Twice the River 14/?
Series: Hikaru no Go/Spirited Away crossover
Day/Theme: 15 March/People prefer to believe prettier, neatly wrapped lies
But this was not the river she was looking for, Chihiro thought, trying to reconcile her disappointment with the sense of wonder that had been growing in her ever since she came to this world again. One moment she had been walking along a street that did not exist anywhere in the normal world with man who--
"Go stones?" she turned around and asked Sai, feeling compelled to puzzle out this part of the mystery.
"Ah." Sai was clasping both his hands together in apology, the yukata he was wearing in hospital making the gesture look curiously old-fashioned. "I'm afraid I'm partly to blame for that," he said.
Both Shindou and Touya looked startled at that. They came nearer, almost reluctantly, as though they found it difficult to tear themselves away from the floating parade of stones.
"What do you mean?" she asked Sai.
Sai looked embarrassed. "You see, even though it is another place entirely, the method by which we came affects how we perceive things too," he explained. "I've only learnt how to do this from the magician at court, and--"
At court? Magician? Chihiro wondered when Sai really lived previously.
"--he knew I played Go, so he taught me the skills of divination on the goban."
Shindou blinked. "You mean, Sai, that all this time you've known how to do something like this? You never said anything. We could have gone on adventures!"
"Trips such as these are not undertaken lightly by a human, Hikaru," Sai said. "It is not like what you see in the magic box--the television set, I mean. Those are just pretty lies made up to entertain."
"Lies..."
"And in any case I could not have done it without Ogino-san, who has a connection to this world still."
"Oh." Shindou glanced at the sky again, watching the unceasing tail of the Go stone river running past where they stood. "So we see giant Go stones because we played Go?"
"Yes, in a way."
"I wonder what other people see," Shindou mused. He looked out at the river of stones again. "A river of the universe," he said.
Chihiro glanced at him sharply.
"I used to say that the goban was the sky, and Go stones are the stars," Shindou said. "And now that we have seen a river full of Go stones, large and small, I wonder, where does it lead to?"
Series: Hikaru no Go/Spirited Away crossover
Day/Theme: 15 March/People prefer to believe prettier, neatly wrapped lies
But this was not the river she was looking for, Chihiro thought, trying to reconcile her disappointment with the sense of wonder that had been growing in her ever since she came to this world again. One moment she had been walking along a street that did not exist anywhere in the normal world with man who--
"Go stones?" she turned around and asked Sai, feeling compelled to puzzle out this part of the mystery.
"Ah." Sai was clasping both his hands together in apology, the yukata he was wearing in hospital making the gesture look curiously old-fashioned. "I'm afraid I'm partly to blame for that," he said.
Both Shindou and Touya looked startled at that. They came nearer, almost reluctantly, as though they found it difficult to tear themselves away from the floating parade of stones.
"What do you mean?" she asked Sai.
Sai looked embarrassed. "You see, even though it is another place entirely, the method by which we came affects how we perceive things too," he explained. "I've only learnt how to do this from the magician at court, and--"
At court? Magician? Chihiro wondered when Sai really lived previously.
"--he knew I played Go, so he taught me the skills of divination on the goban."
Shindou blinked. "You mean, Sai, that all this time you've known how to do something like this? You never said anything. We could have gone on adventures!"
"Trips such as these are not undertaken lightly by a human, Hikaru," Sai said. "It is not like what you see in the magic box--the television set, I mean. Those are just pretty lies made up to entertain."
"Lies..."
"And in any case I could not have done it without Ogino-san, who has a connection to this world still."
"Oh." Shindou glanced at the sky again, watching the unceasing tail of the Go stone river running past where they stood. "So we see giant Go stones because we played Go?"
"Yes, in a way."
"I wonder what other people see," Shindou mused. He looked out at the river of stones again. "A river of the universe," he said.
Chihiro glanced at him sharply.
"I used to say that the goban was the sky, and Go stones are the stars," Shindou said. "And now that we have seen a river full of Go stones, large and small, I wonder, where does it lead to?"