Was she some famous dancer?
The girl guessed.
She could dance so well even with a pair of wings on her back...
"That should make it much easier to find her, right?"
The girl murmured.
"They weren't attached."
Qiu Shui Yi Ren corrected her.
"Then they were its wings."
"It had a red feather on its head."
"It was beautiful."
At the time, a downpour was imminent, and the sky was dark. That feather was just like a burning flame.
It lit up her eyes.
"So they were its wings?"
The girl repeated Qiu Shui Yi Ren's words. "And it had a red feather on its head?"
"It wasn't human?!"
The girl cried out in surprise.
"No."
Qiu Shui Yi Ren gave her a strange look. "When did I ever say it was human?"
You never said it wasn't human, either.
The girl gave a bitter smile.
Wouldn't most people assume the dancer she'd seen was human?
"But—"
Qiu Shui Yi Ren frowned. "For a moment, I think I saw its face..."
"It looked a lot like a human face."
"Huh?"
The girl's mouth fell open.
"Oh, right."
Qiu Shui Yi Ren remembered another distinctive feature of the dancer she couldn't stop thinking about.
"It had only one leg."
"One leg?"
The girl stared at her, dumbfounded. "What exactly did you see?"
"A bird?"
When people heard it had wings, nine out of ten would guess it was a bird, right?
"..."
Qiu Shui Yi Ren didn't answer the girl's question right away.
She gazed up at the sky, lost in thought for a while.
Perhaps she was remembering. Perhaps she was pondering.
"...I don't know."
"Maybe it was a bird?"
Qiu Shui Yi Ren sounded uncertain.
"But you saw it, didn't you?"
The girl was confused.
If