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Mai drove the hairpin into the soil at the base of the withered rose.

"I am not here to remember the dead," Mai said softly. "I am here to dance for the living." mai hanano

"No," Yūgen said, turning his blank face toward her. "It is your heart. Every shrine maiden who came before you tended this garden. Your grandmother planted the silver petals the night she lost her sight. Her mother grew the glass blossoms the day her fiancé died in the war. You have inherited a field of other people's grief, and you have never planted anything of your own." Mai drove the hairpin into the soil at

"Then I will plant something now," she said. "It is your heart

"You are Mai Hanano," he said, his voice like dry leaves. "I am Yūgen, the Gardener of Lost Things. You should not be here."

"This is the village's heart," Mai whispered.