Setting the scene…

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Rift of time
Deep in a remote cave in Kiso Mountains Li explores as his wife Sun-jin pregnant with his son in a village miles below With rice farms surrounded by Japanese cherry blossom trees The sun rises The crisp fresh mountain air…
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Previously
…He was singing, a melody his mother used to hum when he was a boy, a song of comfort and home, a song he’d promised himself he’d teach his own son. Little Li. A jolt, stronger this time, shuddered through him, and he saw it again – the ripple, the tear in reality that had stolen him away. It shimmered, a phantom presence in the cave, and a fierce curiosity, the explorer’s instinct that had always driven him, surged through him. There had to be a connection, a reason for its appearance and disappearance. He pushed himself to his feet, the ancient melody rising in his voice, a desperate plea and a determined question, louder now, echoing off the damp stone walls.