Today, Merry and I had an interesting discussion regarding the inhabitants of her dreams -- The youkai -- and the influence they would have if they were in our modern day world and not the world of her dreams.
For example, the youkai in her dreams seem to hold tremendous power. It’s the kind of stuff that you could only imagine being possible.
If, say, a youkai who could manipulate the very concept of time itself were to make its way into our Earth, who knows what havoc it would cause. Very likely, humankind would be wiped out.
But that’s impossible, right? Youkai don’t exist. They’re tales made to explain phenomena that, nowadays, can be explained with science.
Merry tells me that this way of thinking seems to be the very reason these youkai are confined to that world. It’s a world where youkai are allowed to exist. And society has formed around these strange and reality-bending abilities.
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Sometimes, at night, I ponder to myself. This world... Surely it must be a world where common sense doesn’t exist. Oh, what I would give to see and explore how such a reality must feel and keep ticking on.
