Potent
He reluctantly placed his hand in hers and allowed her to pull him to his feet. The moment he did, he was graced with a lovely smile that was probably a little more than half mad.
She danced around him in circles, sometimes pulling him forward through the trees, sometimes forgetting he was there, and he merely had to follow her for a time before she remembered his presence.
One such time, she stopped walking, turning to face him as if she had never forgotten he was there. "Come watch the stars with me?" she asked with a hand ready to push aside a tree branch in anticipation of his answer.
Her voice was a potent drug, and he found himself unable to refuse the fragile miko. He nodded, stepping forward and allowed her to clear the path for him.
It was a small meadow, lit by only the moon and the blinking of thousands of fireflies. She stepped around him, going to stand in the middle of the clearing.
He remained where he was, watching.
She extended her arms, as if hugging the air. It was strange, seeing the fireflies congregate around her, as if she was a light in the dark.
"Did you know that fireflies are messengers from the spirit realm? Their voices surround us, trying to connect with us. But we speak too loudly to hear them." her voice was a whisper, but her eyes told him it was another cryptic message.
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