"By chance, the only ones to survive this terrible flood were the girl, the boy, and the old man who happened to be with them at the time. This same flood also killed everyone in the doctor's household at the foot of the mountain. It was rumored among the people of the area that it was a sign that there would be a change in the land that such a beautiful woman had been born in so remote a place.

"At any rate, the girl no longer had a home to return to, and the boy was an orphan alone in the world, and so they ended up living together alone in the mountains just as I found them. She had been caring for the idiot boy in this way for the thirteen years since the time of the flood.