Purity in Pearl (Sword of Symphonies, Season 2 Episode 9)

A long time ago there was a girl. She was strong and brave and she learned to hunt and survive the wilderness of the Rhime.

A long time ago there was a boy. He was quiet and keen and loved to read books, especially stories about demons.

Each day the boy would walk from town to the girl’s cabin to read her stories.

She loved his stories. Her favorite was “Ira the white haired girl” a story about a girl with hair white as moonlight, who danced with spirits, and who loved a boy named Theodore, a boy cursed by a demon to become a raven.

She loved that story, and she loved him. She would one day make the boy promise to name their children after Ira and Theodore.

Some many years later that boy would return as a man to that cabin, after a journey long and hard. a journey of knowledge and demons.

But when he returned he would find that the girl was already gone, and in her place there was a boy with hair black as raven feathers and eyes cold and spiteful.

Some many years more would pass and Theo would finally meet the daemon with whom he would form an unbreakable bond. With fur white as moonlight.

He would ask her, expecting no real answer, if he could call her Ira. He had always thought the name was far too pretty for him anyways.

Welcome to Sword of Symphonies.

Original music by Kathleen~!

Special thanks to Dillon, of Tales from the Tabletop, for guesting in this arc!