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“You’d do well to remember this: your heart is your home. Until you understand that, you belong nowhere.”
“Then I’ll have to find you when you’re reborn—before your strands have time to knot with his again.”
“We can’t always protect those we love by shutting them out. That was Raikama’s mistake.”
“Surround yourself with those who’ll love you always,” I began, “through your mistakes and your faults. Make a family that will find you more beautiful every day, even when your hair is white with age. Be the light that makes someone’s lantern shine.”
“I bind you to me, Shiori’anma,” he said. “Let our strands be ever knotted as we weather joy and sorrow, fortune and misfortune, and pass our years from youth to old age. We are of one heart, honor-bound, and one spirit, whether on earth or in heaven. From now until ten thousand years forth.”
Let the sleep spirits come to dance in your dreams. May you dance with them and awaken to a brighter world.
“You’ll never lose me, Bushi’an Takkan,” I replied. “Be it bright or dark, you are the light that makes my lantern shine.”
Under the shining moon, we made our way home, our hearts beaming, and the light in our lanterns as radiant as the stars.
