u must go, hesaid. It is because I am going, too. Thankyou, my daughter, for all the happiness youhave brought to us. Then he closed hiseyes and she saw that he was dead. The moon rose higher and higher. A lineof light like a fairy bridge reached fromheaven to earth. Drifting down it, like smoke… … The white company passed slowly to the top of Fuji Yama forward to meet the leader of these heavenly-visitors. I am ready, she said. There was noother sound. Silently he handed her a tinycup. As silently she drank from it. It wasthe water of forgetfulness. All her life onearth faded from her. Once…
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