An Imaginative Proverb Story

<Tab/>Two sisters, Lexus and Mazda, once lived in not-quite-so-ancient Japan. They grew up, played games, and attended school together. After graduating from high school, the sisters moved to Tokyo in pursuit of college education. Even though they shared their lives and the two-room apartment with each other, Mazda studied interior design while Lexus took up spiritual practices. To-riririri-riiing. <Tab/>Ririri-riiing. Ririri-riiing. Ririri-riiing. Ririri-ri- <Tab/&…

…think of anything but one over and over again. Only a sick person can do so. I only did not wish to see her sick, because I would also suffer. I wanted no one, not even the dead, to make her sick..." Mazda tilted her head back and sighed. "Perhaps... Perhaps I was sick, too..." "It is only proper that the left and right palms should wash each other so that both might be clean."