At the moment of death, she opened her eyes again.
One side parched like a desert,
the other side moist like a lake.
Upon a land where two incompatible energies flow at the same time,
the vanished Undine sorceress comes back to life.
“I should have died… so why am I alive again?”
Ripples respond at her fingertips.
She could still command ‘water.’
But this world does not know her.
And,
the ones who drove her to her death do not exist here either.
A village crumbling under severe desertification.
A laker guarding the one remaining lake.
And an undine who has landed here with her identity hidden.
“This is not the time to run… I have to start over from here.”
Whether this place is her new fate,
or the next page of an old, ill-fated bond,
she does not yet know.
* * *
“The things I lost flowed away like water… but water that flows again will ultimately be mine.”
“If death is not the end, then this time, I will bring this world back to life.”
‘Water’ is a primordial element that simultaneously symbolizes purification and birth, dissolution and rebirth. This work takes the dual nature of water as its central axis, and depicts the journey of one sorceress who perishes after paying the price of the power that conceived the origin of life, then awakens again in a new world.
A village laid to waste by severe desertification, people securing only the bare minimum of water to survive, and the resurrection of a sorceress who can tip the balance of this world. While hiding her identity, Undine builds relationships with the villagers in this new environment, and slowly comes to face the secrets hidden here and the reason she was born again.
Featuring powerful elemental magic, a densely built world setting, and a delicate portrayal of the fractures and recovery within the human interior, this work reinterprets the essential meaning of ‘water’ through the dissolution and rebirth of one being.
