Lotus

For a thousand years, I have stayed here, watching the clouds gather and drift apart, the flowers bloom and fall, all because you have been sleeping here, in this place where lotuses bloom. I stayed by your side, waiting for you, waiting for the day you would finally return. I didn’t dare be reborn. I was afraid that by the time you and I met again, after the Six Realms had turned and the cycle of reincarnation had begun anew, it would be countless lifetimes later... So I waited for you, willing to spend a thousand years as a ghost. And you... finally came back, with a new identity, and a new... lover...