Members of the Taimu tribe can travel through time four times in their lives, but they have no control over when their journeys begin or end. Some Taimu never travel through time at all. Others disappear after they do. And so the Taimu grew fewer and fewer, until even the legends about them gradually vanished into the long river of history.
I've always thought of myself as a very lucky person, never realizing how much misfortune lay hidden behind all that luck. The year the flowers bloomed, I met you, and I thought that was my good fortune. It took many years for me to learn that flowers can bloom without ever bearing fruit.
