My shoe tip made a tapping sound, tap, tap, tap, as it passed each neatly arranged floating stone from the lake's edge to the altar in the middle of the lake. Back then, when I first came here, I was a child. My mother brought me here because I had been sick for seven days due to an imperfect heart core caused by a severe injury. We came to Moon Goddess Lake to ask for blessings.
When I was little, I still remember how fascinated I was by all this beauty. Even now, the beauty remains unchanged and hasn't faded at all.
"Fireflies?" I murmured to no one in particular as my steps stopped halfway because a swarm of fireflies came and surrounded me, making me feel like I was in the middle of a festival full of small lights. Those little creatures flew slowly, circling around me, and unconscio
