The Light-Bearer
Neri 光
A young woman with a short black bob, a red scarf and a brass lantern. She keeps the last flame. She never fights. She listens, she turns the world, she walks on.
物語
The story
High above an endless sea of clouds float the sky gardens. Once, a lantern burned at the gate of every garden, and the gardens were joined by light. Then the Silence came. The lanterns went out one by one, the paths shifted, and the world fell asleep.
Neri carries the last flame. She is not a hero. She is simply someone who did not let go. In every garden she folds the architecture back into shape, finds the impossible way, and lights the lantern at the torii gate. Then the garden wakes: trees bloom, water runs, bells ring.
There is no spoken word in LUMA.
The story is told in light, season and music.
The journey follows a year. In spring the cherry gardens wake, and a fox folded from paper and light steps out of the mist to lead the way. Summer brings rain, lotus and koi, and one wet, trembling surprise under an old stone lantern. In autumn the leaves turn red, the gardens open onto the sea, and a pirate ship carries Neri across the water. In winter snow and night settle on the gardens, and every flame she has lit begins to answer.
Somewhere, someone put out the lanterns. Along the way you will find out who, and why.
