A Japanese Princess with Algae-green Eyes

6/18/2012

One day it is said a Japanese princess with algae-green eyes folded a paper crane so perfect it escaped from her hands and flew away to the west, where it caught fire in the setting sun. As it fell and turned to ash, it unfolded into a map of Central Asia. This became Central Asia. To this event Japanese lore attributes the origin of the firebird (spurious folklore). It is said that a still-falling tear from the eye of the now long-dead princess demolishes wood, stone, glass, flesh, even metal or diamond (a ring on a consoling finger?) impediments from our world that encounter it by hazard in the space of fairy tales, obscurely mingled with our own. Theories of fairy-tale space have been proposed with a view to harnessing this energy for weapons research.