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Everything I know is changing. Every boy that I grew up with have been sent off in the ceremony of passage. Except for my closest friend Ryuu, who was chosen to serve our tribe as apprentice to silkmaster Kenji Hiatsu. And I was chosen to serve as a Koro Koro handler.
The swarms of Dendrobes ravished last seasons crops. Our tribe will suffer because of this.
My hero, Jun, the most famous Koro handler now despises me for I have been given thirteen Koro Koro eggs to hatch. Wammu says it is because his mother Sonji is manuvering to overthrow my mother the Le Vu Lan, but I understand little of what goes on in the house of women. I am sad however that the cost of the large amount of Koro eggs I have been given cost my tribe greatly. Three daughters were given to the traveller for them. One of which was my twin sister.
Wammu says that there is great pressure to protect the next seasons crops which is why The Le Vu Lan sacrificed so much for so many eggs. I feel a great deal of pressure to live up to the expectations bestowed upon me and to protect my village and my mother's position.
Jun, however gives me no advice and says that I will fail because no one has ever had the mental strength to impression so many koro. He says it will drive me mad.
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Hi Dogen, What do you like to do for fun? How does it feel to have your hero think so poorly of you? Do you still idolize him? What made you idolize him in the first place. What does your friend think of the sacrifice the tribe made? Why did your tribe make such a big sacrifice in the first place?
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We are taught to submit to the Way, and by denying ourselves we can fully submerge in the Way-Seeking Mind. I cannot justify, longing for chosing my own path, but in confidence, to my friend, Ryuu, I have said that I longed to stay in my tribe or at least go where he went.
It is painful to have such malice come from the one I admire most. My whole life I looked up to him, and I expected that given my path, his role would be suppotive of me. I expected his guidance as I hatch and raise my Koro. I am now afraid. Wammu is helpful and he teaches me many things, but in the end we will have to lead our Koro together to protect our crops from the swarms and I am afraid of Juns isolated stance. I can see something in his eyes, something that causes me to fear him.
It hurt me to know that it cost my tribe so dearly for the Koro eggs I am responsile for. I am saddened that my sister was a part of that cost and it makes me all the more nervous that I must do well to honor that sacrifice, but I cannot pretend to understand the Path. My mother, the Le Vu Lan, is fully submerged in the Way-seeking Mind and I respect her decisions.
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