Where the wind blows
In Assala, the wind has memory.
It remembers where every grain of sand comes from and where it is going. It remembers the depth of each drop of blood seeping into the soil, the sound of each bullet tearing through the air. It remembers the lullaby that its mother sang on the ruins, its father's last breath before his death, and the footsteps of the children running in the gunfire - light and broken, like grains of sand blown away by the wind, and like grains of sand, reunited on another piece of land.
The old people say that the souls of ancestors live in the wind of Asala. They use the wind to convey messages and guide the lost people home. So when the war breaks out, when Hafk's bulldozers roll over the village, when incendiary bombs turn the sky red - the Asaras never ask "Why us?"
They just ask: "Which way does the wind blow?"
Then they walked against the wind.
Because the wind will take everything away. But not the Asaras.
The author's random thoughts: Said Otome is selfish and has no system. Protagonist female, Asara camp
