Title: If Dawn is an Illusion

Author: Ohtori Akio

Character: Kin Tsuchi

Kin stepped outside one morning and decided that this was the end of all things.

A distant rumble echoed over the cloud, sounding like the crescendo of a wave or the churning of wheels or the cracking of the world.

She walked away from her bells and her dreams. She sat ran upon the ground and heard the smallest echoes of laughter from her team mates, Dosu and Zaku. A hitai-ate fell into the river, dying from lack of air where she did not.

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