We travelled through many book worlds, searching for Eve. Even though she was nowhere to be found, it felt as though she was with me the entire time... and I saw traces of the Hatsumi I'd known and loved in many of the girls and women we met along the way.
Exploring a prehistoric landscape, I met Quill, a young tribal girl, and saved her from being sacrificed to a false god... Riding a train, I met a female secret agent, and unwittingly played a part in an unfolding drama of espionage and deceit. On a barely inhabited island, I met an innocent child, Miruka, who sought my comfort... In a feudal Japan straight out of a japanese fairy tale, I met a kind girl who looked just like Hatsumi; the princess Fuji, who comforted me... And aboard an ancient spaceship, adrift in the ether, I found traces of a girl who'd disappeared on her sixteenth birthday.
Perhaps some or even all of these were incarnations of Eve...
Azuma Hazuki · Mon Jul 31, 2006 @ 12:36pm · 1 Comments |