You combined the two contests into one fully enjoyable experience with style, Cyemela! The passage of time flowing with the changing river waters , the ghost and memory of his master's killer to finally his attainment of calm before returning home to his village put forth simply and elegantly.

Your tied in Mizu entry using an 'about the author blurb' was fun. Though my mind went in an opposite direction and I began giggling imagining a bunch of cats sitting outside someone's house with a towering pile of stuff as they meow in chorus to be let back in 😂.