bakatachi’s alcove

He stepped forward to peer through the rocks. There he saw the most beautiful beings in the lake, laughing with musical voices. As he turned to have a better look at them playing and bathing in the water, his eyes caught sight of a single pine tree, full of luminous material hanging on it’s branches. It was of the most finest material, glowing within its own radiance, and he soon realised that they all were the robes of those wonderful maidens nearby.

He reached to take one, and soon, the maidens got out of the water, bodies completely bare, except for their hair that was of amber. One by one, the maidens took their respective robes that immediately melted into them, and took form of their second layer of skin, and they flew upwards into the sky, into heaven. All save one.

"Fair lady, what and who are you? For you and your sisters do not seem human to me," the man asked. The maiden in the water turned to answer, but her eyes widened as she saw that he held her robe. And she retaliated "Who are YOU? For you are holding the key for me to return to Heaven, there in your hands." The man hid it, forming up a plan in his mind while answering "I am Mikagi of the fishermen in this area. Pretty maiden, if you’d like your robe back, you must marry me."

Marry they did, and soon turned to love each other. The fair maiden, Ceres, bore him seven children, all out of love, and even rested upon her husband the powers of the Celestials. Mikagi, the husband, began to turn crazy over the powers, that he also was afraid to lose her, and so threw her robe into the ocean, preventing any chance of Ceres escaping back into Heaven. She killed him to stop his madness that she had unwittingly put upon him, but never found the robe, and died as a helpless mother…

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