Mitsuna Rei Link

“This belonged to my great-great-grandmother,” the collector said, an old woman with eyes like winter rain. “She was a painter. They say she vanished the night her studio burned. They found only this fan.”

Rei’s hand trembled. That was her family name. The same as her grandmother’s, her great-grandmother’s, going back generations she had never traced. mitsuna rei

At first, silence.

She returned the fan to the old collector the next day. The woman wept when she saw it. “This belonged to my great-great-grandmother