[ There's an odd relief in knowing it wasn't a burden to save him. It's like for once, Yoshiki was a light weight on the Earth. He feels so heavy most of the time. ]

There was something in the forest.

[ Even now, he barely wants to talk about it. He doesn't want to talk about any of this. But whoever this man is, he seems to already know what he's talking about. ]

It smelled wrong, and it was trying to look like it was a person. [ The fog over the river coils and curls, black and grey. ] It wasn't one.

[ There's a chill that comes off the mountain at night, even in the summer. It's all the way inside of him. He's never going to get away from it, wherever he goes. ]

I think there's something strange about this town.