And So the Story Begins... (Sagashi and Aiko)
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(note: this is a repost of an early puzzle I submitted. This has a lower piece count for those who prefer easy puzzles. There is also a higher-count version as well, browse my portfolio!)
I often have ideas for stories ... and I often create images to illustrate points in those stories ... so this is one such image (I often call images like these "doodles" -- since they might have an unfinished look to them).
The plot of this one was a kind of mix of Narnia and Alice in Wonderland, but I wanted to go in a less traditional route once she's on the "other side".
(apologies to Japanese speakers ... since I used Google Translate to the Japanese phrases I needed --- this story would have started in Japan)
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Aiko had chased her cat, Sagishi, across half the town, through fields and was now climbing Sosen no Oka (Ancestor's Hill). Sagishi had stubbornly ignored her calls.
It was getting late and the darkness would be coming soon. Ah, finally! Sagi had stopped at the old moon gate that topped the hill.
Everyone said it was the remains of the entry to an old estate from the 1850's but as a child her grandfather had told her stories that the gate was over a thousand years old and no one knew who built it -- it might even have been built by the gods! He said the hill was haunted and that strange things happened here. Grandfather always was one to embellish his stories.
The sun was sinking lower in the sky -- she remembered today was the summer solstice.
She approached Sagi who now sat calmly on the step before the gate. "Don't you even THINK of moving! It's time to go home."
Just as the setting sun touched the horizon a sudden bright flash of light appeared in the old stone ring, an electric crackle like a peal of thunder split the air and the smell of ozone surrounded her. It was like the gate had opened to ... somewhere else. Through the electric haze she could see the stairs continued upward and she remembered the name her grandfather had for the old gate: Tenhenokaidan (stairway to the heavens). With one last look back at Aiko, Sagi turned and jumped through the gate.
I often have ideas for stories ... and I often create images to illustrate points in those stories ... so this is one such image (I often call images like these "doodles" -- since they might have an unfinished look to them).
The plot of this one was a kind of mix of Narnia and Alice in Wonderland, but I wanted to go in a less traditional route once she's on the "other side".
(apologies to Japanese speakers ... since I used Google Translate to the Japanese phrases I needed --- this story would have started in Japan)
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Aiko had chased her cat, Sagishi, across half the town, through fields and was now climbing Sosen no Oka (Ancestor's Hill). Sagishi had stubbornly ignored her calls.
It was getting late and the darkness would be coming soon. Ah, finally! Sagi had stopped at the old moon gate that topped the hill.
Everyone said it was the remains of the entry to an old estate from the 1850's but as a child her grandfather had told her stories that the gate was over a thousand years old and no one knew who built it -- it might even have been built by the gods! He said the hill was haunted and that strange things happened here. Grandfather always was one to embellish his stories.
The sun was sinking lower in the sky -- she remembered today was the summer solstice.
She approached Sagi who now sat calmly on the step before the gate. "Don't you even THINK of moving! It's time to go home."
Just as the setting sun touched the horizon a sudden bright flash of light appeared in the old stone ring, an electric crackle like a peal of thunder split the air and the smell of ozone surrounded her. It was like the gate had opened to ... somewhere else. Through the electric haze she could see the stairs continued upward and she remembered the name her grandfather had for the old gate: Tenhenokaidan (stairway to the heavens). With one last look back at Aiko, Sagi turned and jumped through the gate.
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