She stared in surprise at the young man, who was tall, broad-shouldered, and muscular in appearance. "Maybe I'm dead, and this is the Moon strap," she told herself. "Get up," the young man told her. The Forest of Sin is not a place for mortals; only spirits and wild monsters live there. "Maybe he is a spirit," she persuaded herself.
"I said stand up," the young man exclaimed. Ema fainted from fear after hearing the man's voice.
Ema awoke in a tenth, perplexed as to how she had ended up there. She struggled to recall all that had transpired that night, which appeared to her to be a dream. "It's all a dream; I wasn't jailed, and Luscious, my darling, never turned away from me. It was all a bad dream”, she told herself. Ema raised her two hands to the heavens, thanking the moon goddess that
