Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

Chapter 2126  Quaint

"Silent and lost, vast but quaint. The quiet of the rustling leaves and springs of water fill my mind, tempting with their guile, but subtle in their influence…" Ryu muttered out the words. It was just a short few words, but he felt something stir in him. There were an endless number of contradictions in these words alone. "Vast but quaint" was just the most obvious of them. But mentioning quiet and then speaking of things that very obviously made noise was yet another. The final line, however, seemed to reframe it somewhat. Ryu stared at the poem for a long while, and soon, a picture of a woman seemed to form in his mind… a woman who found peace in this endless forest, alone and seemingly abandoned by the world, and yet still felt like she was missing something. The rustling of leaves and the rush of water was her quiet and her silence; she could quite easily lose herself in them, forgetting that they were there in the first place. But if she could so easily ignore the sounds and calls of nature, then wouldn't it be even easier for the world to forget about h