Someone...* (Who are you?)

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... Touched me. And I wasn't afraid. Who are you, child?



... ... Daruma.




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"I see you...mi stella.."

"I see you...mi stella.."
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Daruma, I don't understand.

Daruma,

I don't understand.
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"These things can be so

"These things can be so strange and new...with time the haze shall lift."
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They are... Why do they do

They are...

Why do they do that and expect it, as well? Do you do it, too?


My brothers and sisters and I, we had the company of each other up in the sky, but we never were so close to touch! I don't understand.
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"My touch is seldom reserved

"My touch is seldom reserved for the living; the inanimate, the dead, the bloated and decayed....they beg for my touch. They touch to relate, to bond..it's a rather intimate act,hm?
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I am not living. Nor am I

I am not living.
Nor am I dead. Would you have reason or priority to touch me, Daruma?


To bond... I'm not familiar with intimacy.
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"My priority is lent to those

"My priority is lent to those I consume or can't quite understand with my other senses..you ,little thing, may find you fall upon the latter. It's a slow dance..
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A flicker, a pause. I've

A flicker, a pause.

I've learned to dance, Daruma.
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Lids parting to reveal hooded

Lids parting to reveal hooded inky eyes. " It takes much more to refine that dance..."
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What more does it

What more does it take?


Would you show me?
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"I'm hardly an appropriate

"I'm hardly an appropriate mentor...."
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But Daruma, you're aged and

But Daruma, you're aged and wise. Who would be better?

What makes you unsuitable?




There are very few I trust as you.
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"Ah, true as those words may

"Ah, true as those words may be, my manners are foreign to those that inhabit this oasis-they do not age as I age, nor feed as I feed..though it warms this one's old heart that you find a way to instill some trust in me."
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Farther confusion caused him

Farther confusion caused him to flicker, But I am not like them, either.

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A tilt of the head, wide

A tilt of the head, wide mouth cleaving his face, ' Who better to learn from? Then those you wish to understand.'
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Of course. But I think what

Of course.

But I think what I seek to know is deeper than them.
Deeper than myself. Within myself?




And I want to understand you, too, Daruma.





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"My, my your curiosity know

"My, my your curiosity know no bounds, hm?". His natural cadence, slick and syrupy.
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A shared trait,

A shared trait, perhaps.


... Daruma.

Do you dance alone?
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"Among all creatures, yes....

"Among all creatures, yes.... I know no other way, then to dance unaccompanied, mi stella "
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A shimmer. Something stirred.

A shimmer. Something stirred. Perhaps something changed.

Will you dance...


... With a star?


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His expressin is one of

His expressin is one of false, playful demurity, lips stretching in a sleek smile. "If Stella will have me..."
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... In time. Daruma.

... In time. Daruma.



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"An old companion of mine..."

"An old companion of mine..."
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(I still want to know who

(I still want to know who this fawn is.)