Ablution

by velvet-sometimes

Some memories never leave us behind, and the bonds forged between a child and a River God retain remembered strength in paint and dreams. Hope rides the thin edge of a weathered sea shell and the cleansing sting of the ocean spray... A Drabble series

3. Continuation

Beginning note: I don't own Spirited Away, I'm not making any money off it, and this is all for the funzys.

Ablution - A ceremonial act of washing parts of the body or sacred container

Continuation

Sighing Chihiro set down her paintbrush made her way to the window of her studio. She leaned against the sill to stare out at the reflection of stars beginning to twinkle in the twilight sky against the ocean as the first tendrils of night overtook the landscape.

She always felt wistful when she finished another piece, restless and strange, almost possessed in her need to submerse herself in water and swim until exhaustion overtook her. A continuation of their first meeting she assumed; some primal need to recreate that fateful day, so that it was real in her mind for that much longer.

That urge had her pulling her dress over her head, heedless of paint covered fingers which smeared a rainbow of colors across her bare skin, crawling out of the window to sprint down to the water.

She needed to feel the caress of the water against her skin again, needed to feel the only thing she had left to remember him by.

Note: Okay, I started this series as an exercise in finishing something SHORT, intending it to be 7 - 8 drabbles; just enough to annoy Ree who was poking me to write on Hellfire. I'm now working on drabble number 32 as I'm posting this, and Its not even at the halfway point of the story. -.- I don't even... I don't know.