After a while, the five springs fell silent, and the world fell silent again.
Yue suddenly could no longer support her weight and she fell onto the floor. He tightly held the Siter's lyre tightly against his aching chest. The strings of the harp gently gleamed like crystals as they were wet with drops of water.
"...I really want to play for you." Yue said quietly.
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A number of water snakes with beautiful scale patterns emerged from the depths of the lake. They weaved and moved their bodies as they crept toward the shore.
The enormous whirlpool that had suddenly appeared above the river's surface had just subsided. A motionless human lay on the bank. The power from the whirlpool that had previously swept the figure into the riverbank, but his body from the waist down was still submerged in the water.