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Howl's Moving Castle ハウルの動く城 (2004) | dir. Hayao Miyazaki inspired by: 

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“You still may die in the Dregs." "I may. But I'll die on my feet with a knife in my hand.”

the second time she finds them, she holds them tight to her chest and quietly sits down next to andy, gently laying them on the table in front of her. she blinks a few times, a watery smile coming to her face. and she tells nile about some of the photos, nicky cooking with joe (she thinks they made risotto that night, she can’t be sure), a blacksmiths workshop, the lady who made the best pastries at her shop, though andy doesn’t remember her name. and hundreds of others, a collection of their lives across decades, hair and clothes changing but faces remaining the same, if not a bit world weary

then she finds one of quynh, not a photo of her, but a photo of a painting of her. she looked just like she did in nile’s dreams, dark eyes that had seen too much, but this painting captured a lightness that wasn’t there in her dreams. she wanted to ask andy the first time about the photos, since she didn’t seem like the photographer type, it was mostly joe who would take pictures of them, but seeing the photo of quynh’s painting, she understood now

andy had seen not only decades and centuries like the other three, she had seen millennia. she’d seen more than nile could even fathom, and some of it forgotten, the faces of her family, the landscape of her birthplace, so many things that once were and are no longer. that painting of quynh is gone now, lost to time and their everchanging lives, but she has the photo of it so she can still look at quynh and remember the beauty of her smile or how the firelight reflected in her eyes