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In the valley there is a mist. I can no longer see the silver stream at Kyushu.--Who are you?--I am afraid!--Riki--Riki--
[_There is no answer._
THE GAKI
He does not seem to hear.--I shall go to meet him. He went this way, you say?
AOYAGI
Yes.--There is a mist in the valley and I can not see the silver stream at Kyushu--
[_She does not see The Gaki who goes in the direction opposite to the one Aoyagi has indicated._
Oh, the little day--the little day--of love beyond love.--Riki--my mother, Obaa-San.--Yesterday the mountain-top gleamed like the topmost heaven in the spring sunlight. Today--the valley dies in mist and the mountain-top is lost in the sky.
RIKI (_coming in singing_)
Hai! Hai! Hai!
RIKI
Aoyagi!
AOYAGI
I must go back to Obaa-San, my mother.
RIKI
What has happened, Aoyagi?
AOYAGI
We came up the mountain path side by side, Riki. Without question I gave myself to you.
RIKI
Aoyagi!
AOYAGI
I gave my love--my love beyond love. I believed.
RIKI
Why not believe?
AOYAGI
Your first words were--"You are she!" I did not question. And now--
RIKI
Oh, my little love, was I gone too long?
AOYAGI
My love knows no time, Riki.--You were gone--how can I say?--ages.
RIKI
It was ages, too, to me, Aoyagi.
AOYAGI (_softening_)
I watched the silver stream at Kyushu--and I waited.
RIKI
What, are those tears?
AOYAGI
Nothing, Riki--but I feel so far away--from Obaa-San.
RIKI
She can bridge the distance with her heart. A mother can always bridge all distance with her heart.
AOYAGI
Hai!
RIKI
Our happiness is all she wants.
AOYAGI
Our happiness--(_bitterly_)
RIKI (_He goes to her. She moves away_)
Why--
AOYAGI
The silver fishes--
