Tayumori Newsletter - The 49th Leaf - 🐿️ Ricca's Admiration

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Today, too, we are
getting closer to the
seeds of light🌱🌱🌱

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🐿️ Ricca, you see,
always watches Tokonoha🪽
quietly from up in the trees or through the branches.

Standing silently
on a mossy stump,

every time her long leaf hat
slides through the moonlight,

🐿️ Ricca's tail
fluffs up and sways...

🐿️ "Tokonoha's words are...
like the night breeze,
cool and
gentle..."

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🍂 One evening,

seeing Tokonoha🪽
walk quietly
into the depths of the forest
after her fortune-telling,

🐿️ Ricca
followed her softly.
So as not to make a sound,
she went
lightly, lightly

over the leaves.
🐿️ "It's not like...

I was just curious...!"
But,
at that moment,
Tokonoha🪽
suddenly stopped
and whispered softly

in the night wind:

🍃 "Signs are heard with the ears, not the eyes."
Those words
melted into the forest
and reached

🐿️ Ricca's ears quietly.
At first,
it was a phrase she thought

was just 'cool'.
But...
hearing those words in the wind,
the meaning
gradually changed

inside 🐿️ Ricca.

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🐿️ "Things you can't see with your eyes...

what could they be..."
And then 🐿️ Ricca

realized.
For example—
・The voice of a drooping leaf
・The trembling of feelings that haven't become words yet

・The soundless sound where likes are born

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🍂 One day,
as 🐿️ Ricca was walking
silently through the forest,
from somewhere,

she heard a wind like this:

🌬️ "...It's almost time..."
Ricca
looked around,
but there was no one there,
yet for some reason,
that wind-like voice
slipped straight into the depths of her heart.

"It's almost time..."
She felt as if that voice
had faintly echoed
deep in her ears.

🐿️ Ricca
stopped in her tracks,
and her tail stood straight up.

🐿️ "...W-was that just now...!?"
"Did I hear the voice of the wind too!?
Really!?"

Blinking her big eyes,
clutching her chest,
🐿️ Ricca looked up at the sky, looking around.

The wind had already
gone quiet,
but the warmth on her cheeks
definitely remained.

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🐿️ Ricca
stopped for a while
and listened intently
to the sounds around her.

And then,
she whispered softly,

"Yeah...
it's almost time..."


🐿️ "Ah... I, too,
was listening to the sound of the wind..."
"I, too,
was listening to the voice of the forest..."

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From that day on,
inside 🐿️ Ricca,
Tokonoha🪽
was no longer
just an amazing little person,

but became a little star of admiration,
thinking, "If only I could be like that someday"🌟
But... she hasn't told anyone yet.

🐿️ "If I told them, my tail would get embarrassed

and puff up...
so that's
a secret..."

🌲 A word from the little person today 🌲
"The light of budding is
the forest's deep breath,
gently filling everything."
(☀️ Harunohi)