The cave shuddered. The silver pool cracked. Light—real light, painful and golden—poured from the fissures.
And Koishi had been running from the truth for so long that the moment it caught her, she finally stopped. -ENG- Koishi Komeiji-s defeat- Cave Adventure -...
The pool rippled. The image changed. Now it showed her standing in the middle of the Human Village, waving at strangers. Walking right through them. A child passed through her chest and shivered, saying, “It got cold all of a sudden.” The cave shuddered
She reached out a trembling hand toward the silver surface. Her reflection—the real one, the one she’d buried—reached back. And Koishi had been running from the truth
It was not a pit. Not a monster. Not a riddle.
The first trap was a floor that crumbled. She fell twenty feet, landed on a cushion of moss, and giggled. “Soft!”
“That’s not me,” Koishi said. But her voice cracked. The smile on her face twitched.