dragons exist.

or at least, yuri knows people used to think they did. now people question whether they were even real to begin with.

but her questions are more grounded—what will her family eat for dinner? will her older brother be able to walk today, or fall back into his ever-burning fever? which villagers are going to aim rocks at her bad eye this time?

dragons? she doesn’t have time for such nonsense.

but when yuri loses her way in the bamboo forest while on the way to the capital, she encounters a strange vision—two dragons, one black and one white, entwined in a complicated dance before killing each other. shook, she pretends it never happened. but when strange people and occurrences crop up left and right, she begins to slowly discover what it is the universe is calling her to do.

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n.b: VERY much a work in progress..