Farewell My Concubine

When you're little they tell you not to stray to far...  that you are always safer in a group then on your own. As I grew up I slowly stopped believing in this. My curiosity took me farther... and farther away from everything and everyone... well almost everyone.


Looking back... I want to say that she is the only one who really tried to stop me from leaving. Actually, I was the one who tried to get her to follow me... away... from everything.


Regardless, thanks to fate -- we have found each other once again. And this time around she is the one who is tempting me to follow her back to the seas. I remember that day... I felt the touch of her fingers right before I took my final assent to the world above.


I finally ended up telling her about that dream... I went so far to say that it was a bad omen about my returning to the waters. Which -- she quickly countered by saying it was a message from the gods that I should return to the merfolk.


"The tree dark pillars are the three dark deeds of man; lust, greed, and wrath... if you stay amongst them these three sins will consume you. The only way you can avoid that fate is to return... return to the form the goddess gave you!"

Needless to say... We're no longer on speaking terms. How can the world of man be that evil? I've seen so much beauty over my past travels... it truly warms my heart.


Although, I would be lying if I said I was not deeply considering this offer. The elegant harem has fallen into neglect...  The only stories concerning the palace... are attacks on the princesses. Princess Page as been kidnapped by the undead -- again. The same person who as kidnapped her repeatedly in the past. I sense there is another darker reason for this... but honestly... am I the only one who wonders this?


To be honest, there is only one person I am truly staying for -- but is that really enough? Is it love... surely someone from the Yoshiwara would be displeased. "Love is for fools and old people" I can recall Liang's words now...


I still need to seek a wise mystic to tell me the meaning of that dream. I need to find someone I can really trust.