A 500-Year Nap

I can hardly believe it...
All our adventures. From going to Koton with Ginko, to fighting the Oni with Ginko and Yi...
From the official founding of the Gold Lotus, to being practically forced to fight for Nobunaga Kasai...
 
Never would I have imagined what that portal would do. Had I known, I never would have chased that gray-skinned man into it. Was this our final punishment?
After defeating the Huang-Di, who... was my husband, in my previous life. When I was human. It must have been the eye. We told Yi not to go back for it! WE TOLD YOU, YI!
 
<The page is stained with tears>
 
I charged into the portal that erupted from the eye, and apparently Yi threw Ginko in after me. And now...
500 years. We awoke 500 years in the future, having been turned to stone. Petrified. When we awoke, we saw a small group of men.
A kitsune named Kekan, and his pet wolf, Zayev.
A strange man, I believe to have some elven blood, named Shinsuke.
They were led by an older, human man. Master Kaien Sho, of the Gold Lotus.
The very same Gold Lotus that Ginko, Yi and myself formed. It had survived 500 years and blossomed into a full organization. That makes me happy.
 
I don't know what to think anymore. Everyone I know, save for Ginko, is gone. Yoshihiro, Shiro... gone.
And now Kaien Sho is deferring leadership of the Gold Lotus back to us? What does the man expect?
 
We were attacked by Ninja, and something interesting caught Ginko's eye. The blade Shinsuke was wielding was almost identical to the one Yi once carried. The cursed blade.
That fight was... pointless. I did nothing. I couldn't cast my spells. Things are different, and I just want to go home.
 
Everyone is asleep now. I'm writing this by the fire. Arkhan... is this my punishment? Is this what I get for failing in my mission?
I need to sleep, but I can't stop crying. I don't want to wake anyone. Tomorrow is a new day, and perhaps I'll awake to find this all to be a bad dream.
 
~ Yuri