[quote] He was a special person, Natsuko thought as she watched him lying there on the sand. A special person— someone she had never seen before, someone she had just seen for the first time in her life. But it was a strange kind of specialness. Even sitting beside that special person, she felt no sense of envy. But then, on the other hand, she felt no sense of superiority at being the wife of such a special person either. She just knew that she had picked up something very important. It was something that she had been given to look after for a while, something that, when the time came, she would have to give back.[/quote]

[color=silver][indent][indent]— Maki Kashimada, [i]Touring the Land of the Dead[/i][/indent][/indent][/color]