Himiko: "So what is Larva to you?"

Miyu: "I don't think I can put it in words exactly, but maybe I can sing it."

As the music starts Himiko visualises the scene.

Nighttime in a forest, a light rain falls.  Miyu's mother lies on the
ground.  Her eyes are open, but look at nothing.  Thin trickles of blood
drip from two punctures in her throat.  A knife lies inches from her open
hand.

Miyu stands nearby, sobbing.

    "When I think about the first victim.
    I thought my mother really cared for me,
    but I was not as I appeared to be."

A figure in a dark cloak appears behind Miyu and puts his arms around her.

    "Rainy day shinma,
    on your shoulder I cried
    when my first taste of blood
    left me thirsty inside."

A younger Miyu is playing outside her house, when she stops as if she
hears something.  Her mother calls her into the house.

    "Ever since I can remember,
    just like an angel, you've been watching over me.
    My earliest unseen companion true."

Inside an abandoned temple, Larva's mask is attached to the wall inside
mystic seals.

    "Rainy day shinma,
    highly unusual fiend.
    I would kill anything,
    just to hold you again."

	Henry J. Cobb	hcobb@slip.net          http://www.io.com/~hcobb
    Erosion raises mountains.