CHAPTER 26: LOVE EMBOSSED IN PAPER

On the way, she asks her name, he says she is called RYU.

She looks at him strangely, comments that it is a strange name for a human.

He doesn't object to anything.

The young woman says her name is ESTHER, she lives next to her aunt.

So he won't be able to get in, but, wait by the house, she'll come in and bring you some of the drawings.

He agrees.

As they approach the cottage, with the railing around, he believes he smells the scent of PANDORA, though he doubts himself.

ESTHER walks into the house and talks to aunt, warns her she won't be long, she needs to go out again.

The young lady comes out with some leaves on her arms.

She comes out, closing the railing of the little house.

She runs smiling at RYU to a secluded place, RYU follows her, right where they came from.

When she gets to the place again, she gives one of the drawings to RYU, he is perplexed by that drawing, it is somewhat strange, he looks a little stubborn in the lines, in parts he looks blurry, as if he had been wet by droplets and in his eagerness to clean them, he would have run the tizne with which he was painted.

His first reaction is to release a laugh, the drawing he owns, is very ugly, as painted by a very young child.

And certainly, done so carefully, as if I had drawn it several times on the same paper.

Maybe because of the water droplets... the wind gives you the answer, the paper smells like PANDORA.

She is certainly the artist behind that RYU attempt.

Its factions were embodied, including its scales and horns.

The girl notices that he's been silent for a long time since that laugh.

He speaks by name, the young man swelling up next to ESTHER, cannot contain the crying.

He thanks you deeply.

This was certainly done by the person he is looking for.

She smiles in shock.

You ask him if they were separated after the catastrophe?

He claims with his head.

And with one of his hands he wipes away his tears, with the other he sees the drawing again.

He lets go of another laugh of happiness.

She also laugh a little, yes, accepts it, the drawing is... something eccentric, something like a rare beauty, but it also lets you see all the love with which it was made.

Too many tears contained in a few leaves.

This is no surprise to RYU, he also imagined that those droplets were tears.

And they represent those works, all PANDORA's love for him.

RYU hugs the young woman, she doesn't understand it very well, but, that young man speaks to him with the truth.

RYU asks him to be able to see the other drawings.

ESTHER shows them to you.

In each of them he perceives the care with which they were made.

He laughs a lot, he hasn't laughed so cheerfully in a long time.

The young woman looks at him complacent and somewhat self-conscious, she really liked RYU's company.

After an hour, she tells him it's late, he agrees.

He just wants to ask you a favor.

He asks you to please keep those drawings as your treasure, and if you can, please let him have one.

The first one who showed him.

ESTHER tells you why don't you take them?

RYU explains that, in truth, they were separated, because they do not want them to be together, it is a risk already to have one of the drawings, to have more than one.

It would be harder to hide them.

In case you can't keep them, then he'll take them.

She tells you that if she keeps them, then can he visit her from time to time?

He says yes.

ESTHER blushs.

When he can return, he will search until he finds PANDORA and hopefully his precious treasure will still be with ESTHER.

This saddens ESTHER a little, but he agrees to have them at home.

RYU accompanies her out of her house.

They're fired.

Aunt peeks out the window when she hears she opens the railing.

They're said good-bye again.

When the young woman enters her home, RYU embarks on her career to the outskirts of the village screaming with happiness.

The people around him just see it happen and he does what he's doing again.

Aunt asks ESTHER about the identity of the young man who accompanied her home.

ESTHER tells him he's RYU.

A new friend.

Aunt tells him he's a handsome young man.

ESTHER, with a little nostalgia, tells her yes, she's lovely.

Too bad your heart's already busy.

Auntie's looking at her.

She's going to wait for that drawing in a wooden box.

He approaches aunt and tells her it's time for dinner.

They'll both get close to the wood-burning stove, make dinner.

RYU, on the outskirts, transforms into a dragon as he runs and embarks on immensely happy flight, drawing in his hand.

It is also said that he will go day by day, village by village, he will find PANDORA.

RYU, on the fly, looks at the moon and the starry sky.

In the distant village, PANDORA looks through her window, the same moon that RYU sees and watches a shooting star cross, she closes her eyes, and asks for desire, to see him again.

It's bedtime.

She with an oil lamp approaches her bed, settles in and turns it off.

He then lies on his side covering himself as it's a little cold.

END OF CHAPTER 26