The light woke me up from my sleep. I was lying in front of a glass pane window with the moonlight shining in. My bed was a cot. Just a cot with no blankets and no pillow but instead just my body lying against it. I was dressed in my white dress with my stocking feet showing at the bottom. I was alone in this large room with no corners and the glass pane window that went from the floor to the ceiling that made up an entire wall. Outside in the moonlight I could see shadowy hills and trees blowing in a breeze. The moonlight was so bright it was like daylight outside yet the light was silver instead of gold like the sun. Inside I could hear the music box song playing. It was a piano though; the piano was playing the song of the music box before the soldier smashed it. The music was so clear; I could feel it in my soul.

I was sitting there on that cot just looking out the window when I saw her. Then I saw them, I saw everyone. I saw mama standing next to my father and they were smiling and waving to me. Even Shingo was there and he was the old Shingo before the war changed him. He was waving to and then there was Rei and she was wearing her priestess outfit and looked like the girl I had first met and not the one she turned into. Rei was holding a broom in her hand and she joined my family. They welcomed her while I watched and my mother hugged her tightly and kissed her cheek. Then they all turned to me and waved.

I saw Makoto then standing alone. She looked tall and proud and beautiful and like the lady she had always wanted to be. She walked up to my family and shook hands with my father who then bent down and kissed her hand like men do in the movies. Then she was waving to me and standing with my family. My mother gave her a hug also and kissed on the cheek and I knew that the whole ordeal was forgotten in that instant. They stood there, all of them, waving to me in the moonlight that seemed to grow brighter and brighter until I realized that the sun was rising and that the light was turning to gold. I held up one arm to block the light from my eyes then I lowered to see you standing there. You had your back to me and you were wearing your uniform. It was that green color that you call army fatigue green. Then you looked over your shoulder and looked at me. I was still sitting in that bed and you were outside in the sunlight alone. You turned around and smiled at me then you held out your hand as if to say come with me, I’ll save you from this.

Taken from Japanese Moon.