Mononoke: Princess

“I told him you said that.”

She released his arm. Stood. Walked to the edge of the spring and stared into the water. Her reflection stared back—a girl with clay stripes and human eyes. princess mononoke

A lie. They both knew it.

A long silence. The Kodama’s heads bobbed in the undergrowth. Somewhere deep in the new forest, a nightingale began to sing—a sound that had been absent for a year. “I told him you said that