Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.

I don't like things held up before me that I cannot have.

An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them.

I've lived my life again just telling it to you.

Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about. [Mameha]

Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.

This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.