| Looking into a mirror and not reconising the face
Sitting in the middle of the top floor of his dojo the sights and sounds of the swamp lessening, the day creatures bedding down while the nocturnal ones waking the light from the sun disappearing over the horizon, and Kai just sits there thinking. His journal laying open at his last entry. The wind russles the branches of the tree within the walls a couple of blossom petals flutter past and Kai just sighs, the talk with Stewan, Gwen, Elion and Miss Wraith heavy on his mind... especially the part where Gwen said she could deliver a message to his parents,
"I have not seen nor contacted them since leaving Heartwood" he says to himself... "I don't even think that they would approve of what I have become... but they should know of Virelle surely."
Muttering again "They won't even reconise me if they saw me in passing, why now should I think of them when over the years of my trainning they didn't even enter my mind why now?"
He gets up and steps onto the telepad that will lead him to the lower room then on the other one that leads to the ground floor, opening the sliding doors he steps into the courtyard, the sent from the blossom tree over powers that of the swamp, but something else permented through the air, it was that of tea brewing chuckling to himself he knew that Virelle was home and from the smell brought her work back with her. Using the stairs he climbed up into the house, once there he looked into the mirror, he paused, looking into the reflection, he didn't know that Virelle had come up from the kitchen he muttered. "When the time comes and you look into the mirror and yet fail to reconise yourself you need to step back and look where you lost track of who you are...."
"What is that Kai?"
Startled somewhat he turned to look at her, she stood there in one of her meny outfits her earrings made from hard won diamonds at the rose, "Oh just quoting somethin my love that's all..."
"Oh? another Samurai saying that you have yet to teach me?"
"Nay, nothing like just the last chat and advice that was given to me from my father..."
"Oh?"
"Hai, I think it is time to gather my courage and finially go and see them again, been along time since I last saw them might be good to rebuild a burnt down bridge, would you care to come with me.... to Heartwood that is?".....
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