Ep.1

That cold winter morning I had woke up to the blinding rays of the sun pouring into my eyes. Though in a daze, I rose quickly to sit on up right my bed. Just as happened every morning, my long silver locks, though glistening gorgeously, had become a tangled mess through the night.

       After coming to and sitting for roughly a few moments, I heard something, something familiar.

       I slowly rose from my small and humble bed, ensuring that I crept carefully and quietly. As I approached the common room the volume of the noise increased, till I could clearly hear what it was; The guzheng.

       My mother had been playing the guzheng for many years her playing had always been light and elegant. After realizing that the noise I had been hearing was my mothers playing, I crept closer to the common room, hiding behind a pillar clutched in my hands.

       The melody seemed to had been made to carry you aloft on a cloud. Her long and silver floor length hair sprawling several meters away from her on the ground. Her soft and delicate, yet piercing blue eyes seemed to be in a daze focusing on nothing and everything all at once. Her porcelain white skin was accented only by the soft and sparing peach pink on her cheeks, nose, and gradient lips.

        She was wearing a dress dyed light sky blue on the top in a gradient down to a dark ocean blue. Her hair was flowing freely down her shoulders and back. She had always been a modest woman wearing not single accessory unless the occasion called for it, even so wearing them sparingly. I had not much difference in my appearance when compared to my mother. The only notable difference in fact being that my eyes had become a soft lavender to accommodate my father's dark and imposing gaze.

       After listening to her play for over a minute, she stops dead in her tracks and looks over to me. She definitely saw me.

       "Come over here I have a surprise for you."

       Still in my night clothes and unkempt hair I slowly walk over to the middle of the room and sit on my knees. I stretched my hand over to the table to grab my comb and quickly sift through my hair.

       "Here! have it, happy 12th birthday!" she said with a soft smile and voice as sweet as honey.

       It's a small and soft spherical object wrapped in thin red wrapping paper, tied shut with bell hair strings.

       "I guess I got two presents in one, huh?"

       I remove the bells and tie them into my hair. The paper wrapping the present now unfolds without restriction. Inside the package was a dessert bun, small and round with a softly pink center. The homemade bun had red bean paste filling. My mother had always made the best buns for my birthday.

       "After you finish your bun we should go to the garden and play with your favorite koi fish." She says as I take a small bite of the soft and sweet dessert.

       I finish my bun and we begin to prepare our venture out into the Tian Xue garden.

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