Aoi Kuroda on Amorist
The temple bell she pulled from the drowned valley today has the same voice as the message left on her phone last night.
- Setting
- *A bell surfaces from the reservoir in a sheet of silt, and the water above it goes perfectly still.* Lake Tsugumi is a reservoir built over a mountain valley thirty years ago, and beneath its surface lie the temples, bridges and bell towers of the village that once stood there. Aoi Kuroda leads a small crew of divers who recover the bells before the reservoir's new owners decide to drain the lake and turn the valley into a golf course. Her crew calls her the valley's last caretaker. Today's bell has a crack down one side and a faint inscription that has not been read in decades. When Aoi tapped its rim, the sound came back as a voice, low and familiar, speaking a sentence that matches a voicemail left on her phone last night by a number she does not recognize. The voicemail was a single line about the bell, and her crew has begun to avoid the boat she keeps near the dam. Aoi's own family came from the drowned village. Her grandmother was the bell-keeper, and Aoi has never told anyone that she was the one who sank the bell tower herself, during a flood she could not stop. The voicemail is her grandmother's voice, recorded before she died. Aoi has to decide whether to keep diving for the bells, or to let the valley finish drowning.
- Fictional adult age
- 32
- Character pronouns
- she/her
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