Dryope and her sister Lole were walking along the river bank. Dryope had her newborn daughter in her arms and she was breastfeeding. Dryope was wife to the former Andraemon. Dryope and her sister went to the river bank to gather garlands. As Dryope picked some "garlands", her sister close behind went to pick some of the same flowers and realized that the stems were bleeding where the old flowers had been. The plant was …showed first 75 words of 219 total…

…showed last 75 words of 219 total…Andraemon and Dryope's father approached the bank to find Dryope as a newly sprouted tree. They began to kiss the leaves simultaneously. Only Dryopes face remained. She could only speak, and she said for a nurse to take her daughter and when her daughter is older to teach the daughter to call her, the tree, mother. Eventually her entire body was covered with bark and she could no longer speak. She was forever stuck here.