Walking Through the Mountain Fire

If one day your body were consumed by a raging fire, your bones turned to wax, your blood to oil, your torso smelted into charcoal, your heart and lungs reduced to a wisp of green smoke...

Would you still believe that, amid the ashes left by the flames, flowers could bloom again and again, forever?

Clear-eyed, foolish, free-range farm chicken gong x blind civil servant shou, retired but brought back into service, teacher-student relationship, younger gong, historical Lovecraftian mystery-solving story.

Theme: Keep a clear head.