Entering sacredgrounds wherethe moon burns.
Beyond the vermilion gate lies a courtyard that has waited nine hundred years for a single visitor.
- 01Pass the vermilion gate where the rain has never once stopped.
- 02Cross the still court that mirrors the burning moon.
- 03Wake the stone guardians that have not slept in nine centuries.
- 04Step through, and do not look for the way back.
Waking the
stone guardians
of the inner
court.
Step past the vermilion gate and the noise of the road stops as if a door had shut behind you. Here the rain has fallen for nine hundred years without once pausing, and the stone has learned its rhythm. The guardians were carved facing outward so that nothing could enter unseen; the water has worn their faces smooth and the moss has taken their feet, and still they watch the arch where the moon hangs and never sets.
