Dream Interpreter

A giant python, half-charred by a lightning strike, hangs from a dead tree deep in the mountains. Two identical brides sit inside the bright red wedding sedan chair on the way to the wedding. The yellow dog in a photograph moves, and the corpses laid out at the corpse-driving inn suddenly stand up... A white-clad youth leads a strange creature, something like a monkey but not a monkey, like a dog but not a dog, past Yun Meng's qin workshop; In a dream, a young "Daoist priest" tells Yun Meng that he has come to repay an old friend's kindness, and that only he knows Yun Meng's secret; A stone qilin has been skinned and roars within the illusionary barrier on Fox Head Mountain... Yun Meng still remembers that, more than a hundred years ago, in the bustling foreign settlement, she too once used a flame kindled at her fingertips to light a cigar. Missing someone. -- I went down to the Yellow Springs. For you. Xiao Meng. [The companion story next door is "Shadow Catcher." Please add it to your reading list in advance, thanks ^_^ Characters from this story will appear in "Shadow Catcher."] [To read more of the author's works, please visit the author's page.] Theme: An adventure combining Eastern mythology with the real world