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Izumi · 9/25/2026, 2:03 PM

How is it that a blood-red forest could invoke such a sense of calmness?

She remembered a scene like this once -- back when she'd accompanied the side of a woman named Reiko.

Before the home of the white deer had come to play, and her journey in life before Mythiris had only just begun. A man by the name of Crux had laid claim over similarly red forest while the woman in ivory sought out her missing children. She couldn't say the fate that came next, since the next time she'd arrived in those crimson-lined forest, he was gone. Along with him and his group, would left nary a trace of themselves there.

There are times when, even though they'd grown apart, she still missed who she once called her best friend.

Things had not ended very well between her and who she once called her empress, as a once-duchess. If she could go back and time and mend what was once broken, the cranebird wouldn't hesitate to. Even in some of her never ending dreams, she imagined what life would've been like if that wasn't the last time she'd seen the white dove. Where she'd left Shiroshika on good terms, and how she'd be able to show Rei the dynasty she once thought lost. Her beautiful family, the love she'd found, the old and new faces she'd made along the way....yet as fate would have it, that tearful goodbye in the snowy mountains was truly the last time her and Izumi would ever see each other again.

A regret the empress still carried to this day -- yet a fate she did not wish to change. For without it, how could she have found herself again? Revived and empire that was once lost? Met the love of her life? Perhaps it was necessary to lose something she once loved to find something she needed, afterall.

Lost in the reminiscences of bittersweet memories, the Empress had stopped along a trail within Icorwood to find a figure who's back turned to her. Ink-dipped paws had halted along the track after taking notice of their presence.

Curiosity wandered in her icy lilac gaze, and a silence followed the soft chuff she sent out to announce her own arrival to them....

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Greetings Stranger!

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