Marine (edited)

There are boxes of puppet shows.

Clea have been fond of and very good at learning languages. Her mother appreciated it while she was studying. When she was more and more interested in learning and corresponding with the pen pal abroad, her mother became to be against it and blame her, telling her that it wouldn't be no use for their normal daily living.

Maybe that's why she felt a lot of sympathy for Jonathan who has a passion for a stage. At least it seemed somehow alike with her.

The more concentrating, the more she become to try to be on correspondence's side, caring how to know the one more and to be understood herself, but the more his action seemed to be for himself.

One day she thought they were not same. Possibly a fatal point was the stage about the flowers.

Now she thinks as this: even if she really tries to be on others' sides, it tends to end up with pulling or changing most to her side, while Jonathan's attempt to do for his benefit often turns to give and expose himself in a way, though in safe boxes. As the metaphysical dynamics, could it be fifty-fifty?

Anyway she can't look back it without certain bitterness.

- edited from longer text in ebook of two chapters "Pebble Hand" in January 2007. H.H