Butterfly Effect

She was there on the balcony wondering about life and death again. Grandma Arika of Korea never told this proper young lady as such. Living her life with her was wonderful but her parents are home and she has no one to confide in any more. Arika was everything she wanted to be like. She was free now. She was gone to the wind and, "The wind will speak back. So feel free." Sosa was tired of being the girl that hid the lepidopteran birthmark on her wrist. She was tired of people thinking who the person that was should be this and that and she wanted to be gone. 

Socza, this beauty of American and Korea combined, couldn't see the beauty that Licko saw. All she saw was the broken heart that Licko left. The grass was soft that night, the moon was the biggest he has ever seen... She saw her biggest pet fly off from the jar that he and Licko kept of a gorgeous Queen Alexandra fly away. She saw her soul just slip off as well when she hit the grass underneath her balcony. 

Licko was ready to repent of a past transgression, not to accidentally trip and let go of the jar before getting in the tall shrub that used to hide their relationship from those of the first floor parties of the boat. A servant boy should never try to cast her eyes on the lady of the house. Now he has lost everything when Socza tried to recapture the essence of their past love. Now the butterfly is gone. No one will have known that Socza carried Licko's child in a barely-there adoration, it was after all the 1940. The only reason Socza was ever born was because her American father was really big on trade scene so Socza's mother and Licko's ancestral ties had to be broken in order for Arika's husband to control the family. Arika repented the ways of her husband and his beatings by allowing Socza and Licko to meet, if only to keep Licko bound to the horses that Socza's father traded.

Licko had to act fast. Now that the butterfly is gone, as well as her love for him and their unborn child, as well as the un-redeemable chance of forgiveness for when Licko honestly told Socza that he will endure a beating. He will endure it just to keep Socza's wild Korean mare from being bred to American stallions. Licko took the mare, not knowing that war is upon their island of Tarawa seeking out males for a fight to the death of 6,400. He was, every so often, fleeing on broken wings.