Day 26 (Alt) - Folklore

Haze might look more like a forest guardian, a shrine maiden, than Mirania does, but Mirania is the one who tells Haze about the legends, the myths, the rules of the forest she used to call home (and still does, deep in her heart).

She does it so effortlessly, birds in her hand and flowers in her hair, seeming so naturally to belong.

The more she talks - sweetly, quietly, almost as if she's whispering to the very motes in the air, lost jewels from the horn-crown of the Forest Guardian she speaks of - the more Haze wants to belong too.