While I was living aimlessly like that, I went to an exhibit I was invited to, and ended up finding a doll.
It was a doll made so delicately, it seemed to be at the limits of a man's skills. It was like a frozen human, yet at the same time it was clear that it was simply a human-shaped mannequin which would never move.
But it was just too beautiful...
A human about to start moving any second now. But a doll which does not have any life to begin with. A place where only things with life can reach, yet a place where no human can reach...
I fell in love with that ambivalence.
Probably because everything about its existence was exactly like Shiki back then.
It was unknown where the doll came from.
The pamphlet did not even mention its existence.
When I desperately looked for the source, I found out that it was made by a volunteer and the crafter was one surrounded by much rumor in the industry.
The crafter - whose name is Aozaki Tohko - is a hermit, to put it simply.

Kara no Kyoukai: Chapter 01 /1