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 containers
Fascination
"You are so very like my lost one, my Yumi. You are both so brave, so unflinchingly loyal. Should he fail you, maybe I will grant your soul a home in my waters, it would be nice to swim with you forever. You could fill my waves with your picture painted into the seafoam, and sate my fascination with all things terrestrial."
She sighed at that, bringing her hand up to curl into his sea foam hair and pull his head forward to rest on her shoulder.
"Taking me won't bring her back, nor will it make me be her, as much as you wish it would. Her soul sleeps, as mine one day will." she told him in a fierce whisper. "I have held a love so brilliant I should never find another like it. And so if it is destined that I shall pass on with the failing of this trial, then I won't wander the world as a ghost. I have it here," she pressed fingertips to the child-god's chest. "In my heart, and so I won't forever be searching for in the half-realm of the lost."
"I could claim you if I wished, descendant of Yumi. People still offer maidens to the waves as a gift to calm the dragon." He murmured, almost petulant, and she couldn't help but smile at the tone.
"You know you can't keep me, but I will always think of you as my grandfather."
She felt what seemed to be tears on the fabric of her shirt for a moment, before he pulled back, his face unreadable again. "I know." He replied, if not sadly, standing again and stepping back to stand upon the rippling surface of the water. "Such a wise human you are. I think in the next life, your soul will be a spirit again, unhindered by mortal flesh. You have certainly earned it, with the trials you have endured in this one."
And with that he was gone, fading into a mist that dusted the formations around her and turning them into a glittering lightshow all around her.
Note: I had 1 of the 5 teeth that need to go, yanked today. My face is currently numb, I have a lisp, and I'm only allowed to eat squishy foods. Like mashed potatoes and eggs. Which would be my dinner. Such joy.