she said she'd dreamed that an old man took her to 'cracked earth', and after she woke up, Tatsuki wrote that the Japanese city of Kobe would be 'cracked' in either 15 days or 15 years.

Work became a cycle of labelling packages and loading trucks. Each visit home revealed deepening despair — cracked earth, empty wells, and his parents’ weary faces. But a few years later, water ...