“Then perhaps, when the Great Event is over, and when everything has settled, you could visit these places. Anywhere.” “I am just here until I am not. I do not think of one, five, or ten years in the future.” “But if you had to,” I pressed, “where would you wish to venture first?” He stood quiet for so long I thought our conversation had ended, then he finally spoke. “Our kingdom is surrounded by the sea, yet I have never seen it…,” he confessed, grappling with every word. “I should like to stand before the very expanse that literati scholars have captured in their writings. To witness this
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