The Fifth
A Philosophical, Metaphorical Prose Piece (originally published on Facebook on Jan 18, 2026)
Sa, Mu, and Rai were inseparable best friends.
But after a heated argument, they ignored each other.
A young woman named Silence intervened to defend all three of them.
It turned out that in their previous life, they had been a single sword, forged in a blacksmith’s fire—the very sword that Silence gazed at with fascination every day.
Eventually, that sword froze into a block of ice.
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Y.A.