Translator: DC Editor: N/A Proofreader: Matty TLC: Flowingcloud
прелюдия - Prelude
Очи алый - Scarlet eyes
"A rainbow creek……"
In the freezing night, there was a hazy mist.
On a snow-covered balcony in an old castle, there was a child.
The young girl stared up at the full silver moon.
"A lake of dreams……"
She was dressed in a worn-out, faded crimson coat one size too big.
She had limbs slender enough to snap like a twig.
She had translucent white skin like that of porcelain.
She had asymmetric yet lovable fangs like a fox"s.
"Marsh of death……"
Spinning slowly she sung an ancient song, line-by-line.
"Stormy ocean……"
Her jet black hair fluttered in the wind, exposing her pointed ears.
"Sea of steam……"
The girl unfastened a small jewel necklace from around her neck and held it up towards the moon.
Amongst the transparent crystals, a spotless pale light shone.
The moon came into view, and the blue and green aurora emerged.
Her light pink eyes took on a deep crimson color.
"……My dreams……"
The night wind whispered through and disappeared into a burnt-down forest.
She joined her hands and fixed her gaze upon the moon above. She said a transient prayer, quietly and to herself.
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Очи индиго - Indigo Eyes
In a room decorated with numerous wooden fighter [aircraft] models, a young boy with ashen blonde hair was having an injury g treated by his mother. The boy, who longed for the sky, had leapt off the roof with self-crafted wings of wooden rods with cloth, and crashed into an western photinia (aronia) bush. [1]
The boy"s mother looked like a demon as she scolded him about his foolish action
"If you keep doing stupid things, Nosferatu will come flying to bite your neck!"
"Stop……!"
The boy s.h.i.+vered and s.h.i.+elded his nape with both hands.
The Nosferatu were a frightening vampiric race that featured in folklore of the Republic of Zirnitra. Additionally, there were many other mysterious blood suckers such as the Upir, Nelapsi, and Strigoi; all of these creatures were basically non-existent except for one of these. Children shrunk at the mention of the name. [2]
His father and mother took the opportunity to drink nearby distilled spirit (Zhizen). [3]
" Being a pilot is but a pipe dream for cowards scared of vampires"
"T-there"s no such thing!"
"Well then, what do you think happens when Nosferatu takes flight throughout the night?"
"Eh……"
The boy imagined a scene where he was confronted by a monster in the sky with a millet colored body. [4]
"Haha, are you scared?"
"I"m not scared!"
The boy objected as his face turned beet red.
"Eat garlic everyday, wear a necklace with a cross, and you"ll be okay! Besides, I"ll shoot them down if they decide to come!"
His mother and father exchanged looks and laughed.
"Why are you laughing?! d.a.m.nit. When I grow up, I"m going to be a pilot and travel to the moon"s surface, and the two of you won"t get a ride!"
"A trip to the moon? That"s decades away."
"Come to think of it, isn"t there a legend about a vampiric race which live on the back of the moon?"
"N-no way! I"ll go to the moon and prove that"s a lie!"
The boy looked up to the moon which was rising in the window beside him. His indigo eyes twinkled from its s.h.i.+ne.
"I"m definitely going."
Footnotes:
1. Aronia: It"s chokeberry lol. So, this one was a bit tricky though I understood the underlying theme: they were all slavic vampire-related creatures.
3. Spirit basically just means alcohol-particularly things like rum, whiskey, and brandy.
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