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Your someday will find you
"Only the being?" she asked hesitantly, pulling her knees up so that she could rest her chin atop them, watching him watch the world.
"You are far more than mortal now, Chihiro -a little less than real. No soul could cling so tightly to it's mold after such an event as the one you underwent, not even a soul as stubborn as yours." His words were rumbling and soft, comforting in their sureness, even with the gravity of their meaning.
"So I am changed then because you saved me?"
The dragon laughed, and it was a strange sound as it poured from between his jaws like fog. "It was not the act of saving you, but the act of bringing you back from the wheel of reincarnation that has altered you." he explained, and as he did, he lifted a paw in a distinctly regal gesture, tracing the air currents with his claws. "For, to return you to this rigid, human form, I had to give you a piece of myself to tie you to it. And in doing so, promised myself to you. As it has always been done; sending virgins to their death to become the otherworldly brides of the guardian spirits. You no longer belong here, in this unchanging place -in this world of mortality and morality."
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