Crimson Wheel travels west, using his medical skills to heal many along the way. Hearing his patients' gratit…
Crimson Wheel travels west, using his medical skills to heal many along the way.
Hearing his patients' gratitude, his thoughts return to his hometown, ground to dust by plague.
He asks for no payment, only inquired about the legend of catching the moon to eat. Even when met with kind shakes of the head, he never loses heart.
Even with one chance in a million, he would press on. The name Crimson Wheel of the Ice Wheel Palace slowly spreads.
Until one day, Crimson Wheel hears the children's rhyme about the moon and buns. Their clear voices strikes his heart like a hammer.
Catch the moon, turn it into a bun.
In that moment, he finally understands: what he needs isn't a mystical incantation, but a special net.
So, he continues. Wiping tears from his face, Crimson Wheel asks the children where the song comes from.
The moon is the earth's soul; to eat it is to ward off illness. In that moment, Crimson Wheel seems to see the moonlight in the water once again illuminating the home that was no more there.