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16 March/Hikaru no Go/Spirited Away/Twice the River 15/?
Title: Twice the River 15/?
Series: Hikaru no Go/Spirited Away
Day/Theme: 16 March/Face to face with the sky
Touya remembered how surprised he was to learn at school that the sky was not real--that is, it was not simply a giant blue tent that covered the land, but only atmosphere given colour and light. You could fly up in it, as space shuttles did, and never hit the top of the sky.
That was before he encountered anime about giant robots that transformed into various types of aircraft and roared off into space.
It was just that while he had known the sky was limitless, it had never seemed so intimidating before. Here, without the ambient light that never seemed to leave metropolitan Tokyo, the sky was much darker, with a blackness that seemed almost physical. If there were stars, he could not find one, however much he stared.
"...where does it lead to?" he heard Shindou say, and turned his attention to the procession of what looked like Go stones flying past them. The symbolism seemed too pat, Touya thought. He had not been expecting such direct correlation between reality and the supernatural.
Of course, this could be due to the fact that he had after all arrived in this strange place via a Go game, and Touya, no matter how much he loved Go, was not normally someone to imagine that a game of Go could have transportation capabilities. Those nine stones that Ogino-san had not been the preliminaries to a game, he knew now, but a way to--to--
"Fly?" Shindou was saying now to Ogino-san. "You mean in a plane?"
"No," her voice was lower, deliberately dismissive. As though she had not really wanted to elaborate on whatever comment she had made in a moment of distraction. "When I was--" she stopped, and for a second her face was turned away. "When I was last here."
She meant with the person she had been looking for, Touya thought.
"Here--oh." Shindou sounded as though he would have liked to ask more, but Sai, standing where Ogino-san could not see, was making frantic motions to pantomime "No!"
"Yes," Ogino-san said with an air of finality, before walking a few steps to the sight.
She intimidated him with her coldness and mystified him with her unexpected acts of kindness, but Touya could not help sensing that the sight of the sky pained her, as though she knew what should be in it but that was instead missing.
Touya went to stand beside her, though he said nothing, and together they stood by the river of stones.
Series: Hikaru no Go/Spirited Away
Day/Theme: 16 March/Face to face with the sky
Touya remembered how surprised he was to learn at school that the sky was not real--that is, it was not simply a giant blue tent that covered the land, but only atmosphere given colour and light. You could fly up in it, as space shuttles did, and never hit the top of the sky.
That was before he encountered anime about giant robots that transformed into various types of aircraft and roared off into space.
It was just that while he had known the sky was limitless, it had never seemed so intimidating before. Here, without the ambient light that never seemed to leave metropolitan Tokyo, the sky was much darker, with a blackness that seemed almost physical. If there were stars, he could not find one, however much he stared.
"...where does it lead to?" he heard Shindou say, and turned his attention to the procession of what looked like Go stones flying past them. The symbolism seemed too pat, Touya thought. He had not been expecting such direct correlation between reality and the supernatural.
Of course, this could be due to the fact that he had after all arrived in this strange place via a Go game, and Touya, no matter how much he loved Go, was not normally someone to imagine that a game of Go could have transportation capabilities. Those nine stones that Ogino-san had not been the preliminaries to a game, he knew now, but a way to--to--
"Fly?" Shindou was saying now to Ogino-san. "You mean in a plane?"
"No," her voice was lower, deliberately dismissive. As though she had not really wanted to elaborate on whatever comment she had made in a moment of distraction. "When I was--" she stopped, and for a second her face was turned away. "When I was last here."
She meant with the person she had been looking for, Touya thought.
"Here--oh." Shindou sounded as though he would have liked to ask more, but Sai, standing where Ogino-san could not see, was making frantic motions to pantomime "No!"
"Yes," Ogino-san said with an air of finality, before walking a few steps to the sight.
She intimidated him with her coldness and mystified him with her unexpected acts of kindness, but Touya could not help sensing that the sight of the sky pained her, as though she knew what should be in it but that was instead missing.
Touya went to stand beside her, though he said nothing, and together they stood by the river of stones.