Gentle Old Eyes

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Zeno hums, his mother Hinano had just finished braiding his hair. Zeno brushes the tip of his fingers against the flowers braided in. The flowers Hinano had favored were one's that grew around, a little bit of the wisteria, peonies and even sweet pea littered his hair.

And Zeno had heard the woman sigh about higanbana, or in English spider lily, not being in season. And Zeno must say his new mother must really love him, because this combination can be read as wishing a long life for your child with love.

Wisteria most often means immortality, Sweet pea an endearment like child or pet and peonies anything to do with luck in life and love. Higanbana are often associated with the afterlife and sometimes it symbolizes a request for the after life to not take away the person wearing the flower.

Wisteria trees littered this village, and they bloomed almost every season, only not in the coldest of winters. This worlds Zeno's childhood memories are filled with them. And isn't that ironic. Immortality.

Zeno looked at the ground where most flowers were. Zeno brushes a few flowers aside and suddenly there was a glint of gold. There it laid, like always it finds itself back to him.

His kings amulet lays on the ground. Shining a golden yellow almost innocently. Zeno picks it up from the ground where it lays surrounded by peonies and runs his fingers over the dragon carved on gold. The beads are as bright as ever, the red and blue colors bright as new.

He slips it over his head, letting it dangle on his neck for a moment, before slipping it inside of his top. Out of sight for now and the foreseeable future.