Shrine-Maiden of the Two-Sunk Torii-Pool — a water-priestess of a folding purification court whose one great reflecting-pool holds, in the same still surface in the same instant, two incompatible depths: the identical torii archway she is wading DOWN into, its vermilion crossbeam sinking beneath the black mirror toward the drowned court below, is in the same water in the same instant already lifting her UP through its own reflection toward the dry gate standing in open air above, so the sunken shrine below is the standing shrine above and the pool has no bottom and no surface, only the seam where the drowned gate is the dry gate — and the Torii-Maiden has learned the pool cannot be stood in, only crossed, so she takes the whole immersion-and-rising in one committed wading stride at the fold where the gate beneath the water is the gate above it, one bare foot pressing off a submerged step that pulls her under toward the drowned altar while that same push lands her on the mirror-step lifting her toward the dry torii and the moon, caught mid-stride between two shrines of the same water before the two-sunk pool decides which gate the night will let her surface through