Pre-chapter Eccentricities:
Noh is a traditional type of theatre done in masks. I’d have included an image, but I tried and it didn’t work. You’ll have to look it up on your own. And we have more evidence for why this version of wordpress is free.
“Who’s that child?” enquired an elder.
The funeral home was surrounded by men and women in mourning dress. Recently, a large crane had fallen sideways onto a bus, killing three, wounding five. A portrait of one of the dead was smiling from atop the altar.
What the elder had noticed was that the child was not all that young, a high school aged child. Therefore it was not rare to see fellow classmates in uniform.
The question was about the one with an expressionless face like the white mask of Noh. About the age of a high school student, that one lacked childish charm or a cherubic face. Only the elder who had lived many decades was able to understand the truth of the abnormality therein.
“A different high school, it seems,” stated a relative of the deceased, face stained in dried tears.
Certainly, that one had a different uniform. The high schooler stood tall over the waves of the crowd like a great stone in the ocean.
The elder observed with great caution for there was perhaps a strange fire burning in those eyes, but the high schooler, not bothering anyone, was silent with closed eyes with silent breath.
On the other side of the eyelids, those disquieting eyes began to glow repulsively at a certain decision.
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