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“I’ve been living there since the day we met,” he said.

He was watching the ridge.

San’s jaw tightened. “I pulled you . She was just… there.” princess mononoke

But he wasn’t looking at the town.

He descended into the forest.

“Permitted?”

San had not spoken to him in three days. Not since the head of the Forest Spirit had been returned, not since the land had begun its slow, painful crawl back from the brink of decay. The green was returning—new moss on blackened stones, timid shoots of bamboo pushing through ash—but something between them had turned to stone. “I’ve been living there since the day we met,” he said

“You saved her life,” Ashitaka said. “In the end. You pulled her from the collapsing gate.”