Editing An Early Departure (section)

==Perspective==

[[Leaf Shakes the Wind]] looked down from the top of the [[Plum Blossom Retreat]] on those gathered below.  [[Marta]] and [[Rivers Between Us]] spoke softly, their expressions flitting from anger to sadness to laughter.  Leaf knew that it wasn’t the emotion that mattered; it was the fact that, for each other, they let the emotion show.  For a moment, Leaf felt a slight pain in his chest.  He understood the scene before him.  One could scarcely move undetected in mortal society if one did not understand emotion, kinship, love.  But still…

No one had come to see him depart.

“On the other hand,” Leaf whispered to himself as he turned away, “at least I’m not dating a psychotic dead chick.”