Plucking a Flower Branch

A flower bends in the spring breeze, its fragrance and sentiment all the richer.

Now it mirrors a face among the blossoms, though it is no longer as bright as before.

…

Fifteen years ago, a massacre that wiped out her family forced her into the abyss…

Fifteen years later, the man born in the mud yet untouched by dust pulls her from darkness into the light…