aprescoup: (hyang-tai)
destination: still east ([personal profile] aprescoup) wrote in [personal profile] groundrules 2022-04-29 08:29 pm (UTC)

( She listens, first to the shifts of air, then to the serpents that wriggle and whisper their secrets beside her. One crawls up her arm, rounds her shoulders, her neck — its long tongue squirming madly by her ear. )

Raise yourself. Please. Or... I don't... ( Flustered, she indicates behind her, falling just short of pointing the pile of rags others have brought for laundering by the river's side. ) There might be — cloth. For your knees. If you want to sit, use that.

( She does not name herself among those who relish in subservience. )

I... have not witnessed many summers. But I understand it was always so. The... fields. The lands recover, when Brother Sanwon is — good to us. Quiet. Sleepy. And then he warms, and he spills, and the lands can't bear it. They wilt. But when Brother Sanwon is content... we are all happy.

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