The sea breeze suddenly mingled with the familiar scents of childhood: the whistling sea breeze that made my mouth water, mint-flavored candies, and wooden floors damp from the prolonged rainy season...
"elder brother?"
This name burned Ma Tuan's throat. He saw the star tracks on the giant palm suddenly accelerate, converging into two intertwined vortices of light in the palm - just like the double helix of DNA.
The sea water suddenly parted to both sides, and a huge figure slowly rose.
It was a deep blue sea otter, its fur shimmering with a nebula-like glow. Most striking was its face—where its eyes should have been, two rotating star clusters hovered, constantly collapsing and reborn, like a microcosmic cycle of reincarnation.
Umiak suddenly stood up and let out a long cry.
The cries of the two sea otters intertwined in the air, shaking the broken snow on the ice surface into suspension, forming a strange static field.
"What did they do to you?"
Star Otter's voice resonated directly in Ma Tuan's mind, each syllable stirring up ripples of memory. "Your mental image should have been the ocean in midsummer..."
Another wave of memories came flooding back: the sandcastle the two little boys had built on the beach on their fifth birthday.
Zang Ming made constellation patterns with shells, and fluorescent fish swam in the moat dug by Ma Tuan.
The setting sun stretched their shadows very long, and finally merged together...
Ma Tuan suddenly began to retch violently. He saw that what he vomited out was not gastric juice, but glowing blue crystal fragments - just like the primordial core on the altar that had been split in two.
"They tore us apart." Star Otter's nebulous eyes flickered violently, "But there are some connections that even Apernesel's sacred artifact cannot sever."
The giant palm suddenly flipped over, gently lifting Ma Tuan up. The moment it touched Ma Tuan's palm, she saw countless fragments of memory flowing through the star tracks: two fetuses intertwined in the mother's womb; sleeping in a double bed, always facing each other; when one had a fever, the other's temperature would rise as well...
"No..."
Ma Tuan clutched his left chest, where he suddenly felt a sharp pain. Blue meridians emerged beneath his skin, resonating with the star tracks in his palm.
He was horrified to find that his spirit body was decomposing into light particles and flowing towards the Star Otter.
"Don't resist." The giant hand gently closed, wrapping the ball of glutinous rice in the starlight. "This is how we should be."
In the dizzying light, the last thing Matuan saw was Umiak's figure jumping into the sea, and the third eye suddenly opened under the sea surface - it was a huge eye that could swallow an entire glacier, and the silhouettes of two boys hugging each other were reflected in the pupil.
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