Deal With A Goddess

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"There are many things one must never do. 

One must never look at the moon too long, lest one glimpses something looking back. 

One must never call a spirit by name, lest it learns yours in return. 

And one must never—never—make a deal with death. 

I know this now. 

Her name is Izanami-no-Mikoto. The Queen of Yomi. The mother of gods. The abandoned wife.

She is beautiful, or so they say. She was once a goddess of creation, a mother to the world itself. But death took her, and now, what remains is something twisted—something that should not be bargained with.

Yet people do. 

The desperate. The broken. The ones who cannot bear to let go.