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Thursday. 10/06/05. 01:00:05 AM
"I remember there was a period when he was obsessed with a movie
called Blue Heaven," Khamul Shadow had spoke as he took a
sip of his Iron Buddha tea, a tea imported from the country that
Eiji was born at, Taiwan. "We meant to watch it again, but we
could never find enough time to get together for it."
Khamul Shadow was another one of Eiji's close friends, a fellow
writer whom he started a little writer's group before Eiji's
death. There was only a session before Eiji's untimely leaving,
but it had been enough to get them all writing again. "Eiji had
that kind of excitement going on with him," Khamul continued.
"He would always be ready to start something at the drop of the
hat, and would always be the one that worked the hardest to get
it working. But of course, he was always the one who would leave
it first too, going off to start something else and getting
excited about that instead." He paused, as he smiled a little.
"He was that kind of a person."
Ryo had met Khamul at a place in Columbus called Zen-Cha tea
salon, a place that Eiji loved to visit when he was writing, for
the tea was a nice alternative to the usual coffee that he
downed daily, and the atmosphere, with the Zen sand gardens
enclosed under a glass square in the center of every wooden
table. Eiji and Khamul had met here more than once to discuss
their stories and movie scripts, ideas and comics. Eiji loved
this place when he was alive, and his spirit seemed to linger
here a little longer than at any other place.
Ryo was able to contact Khamul through Cyber Tiger, and it took
a while for them to meet due to Khamul's busy schedule of work
and school. It's been almost a week since he first contacted
him.
Watching the movie now in the little cubicle office in the
police department, Ryo seemed to understand why Eiji would be in
love with this movie. Nobody had a bright future in the film,
clapping their hands over the edge of death as a way to kill
time, Eiji must have felt at home with the world and characters
that the movie portrayed. This must have been what Eiji felt of
his own reality. One that had no bright future and any meetings
with death just a way to kill time. |
