Fragments from the Vault #005: The Age of Kai - Seven Gardens (An Excerpt)

To the east a garden gleams...

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Game: Mutazione

Location: The East Garden and beyond, Mutazione

More information: Mutazione Wiki | Fandom

Mutazione's ruins. Photo credit: FetchQuester

I remember the twilight when -

"In one of those dreams... so vivid, you can feel the starlight on your skin,"

Kai came to Mutazione,

And sowed between seasons a softness so raw

We wept in the afterglow of song. 

Village campfire. Photo credit: FetchQuester

At first, the rooftop garden sung: Apprehensive, resolute.

But Miu, whose "story is hers to tell" is where Kai's journey began in earnest;

"a gust of wind blown from another continent" -

That swept the ruins of circadian silence

And churned the ashen soil anew -

Yielding hope long tempered by time,

Subdued in earthy grief.

Temple and Fung. Photo credit: FetchQuester

Where once restrained, fresh ferns aglow

'Neath Papu's canopied heart unfurled,

And Wubjen Leaf and Neejon Palm,

The sultry sway of Protean lament

Met chills from Coastal Orchid's breath;

Astral Ragwort rustled dusky chimes

While Guzmania blazed Dracanean shade -

And Evanescence shed their scales

Enshrined where Blackpool Lily beamed.

The Papu Tree. Photo credit: FetchQuester

"The Age of Kai", the people sang;

The sorrow haunting Papu's heart

Diminished, its symbiotic plumes

"like petals falling in the rain",

Surging from a luminescence

Invoked like "summer, surely woken,"

As we spilled salt and from decay

Made life, as life itself decays -

And thus renewed our healing days.

Port and Lighthouse. Photo credit: FetchQuester

- Lucy A.

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Sources: 

Mutazione (Die Gute Fabrik/Akupara Games); fandom.com [note all quotation marks attribute direct quotes from Mutazione]

*Dedicated to one of my dearest professors, Monica.