Le Vent Express

 (texts translated from the pamphlet by Louise of? kamijoversaillestheorie)

It is a love story traveling through time in which a woman who had experienced love had decided not to fight destiny and a man made the opposite choice. These two beings fell in love in a past life. The love that they thought they had "acquired" was not a gift from heaven.

When she was struck by pneumonia, he did not know what to do. Was it true that their love was not supposed to be realized ?

However, in order to make their love eternal, he transformed into a blue bird and flew to the sky where his beloved flew away, while wishing to meet her again in another century ...

Time passed and .. In 1999, in our time, these two lovers are reborn. Their paths end up crossing each other again, although they are still unaware of the existence of their other half. Will they manage to be free from this Destiny which has been repeated in a loop like the spirals of shells ?

 What does their eternal love they have chosen look like ?

What flower will bloom at the end of eternity ?

Spring 1999. I went to a café named "The Fairy Café." Besides myself, I did not see any customers in this quiet place. I thought, this woman, isn't she the one I've met by chance ?

 I was sitting by the window and staring at the empty sky. It was about to rain, heavy silvery clouds were looming on the horizon and they rushed deeper and deeper into my consciousness.

A clear lake like crystal ...
In a silent forest ...
A girl clad in white ...
 .. And ...myself ?

All of a sudden, I realized that cafe manager stood in front of me, a cup of tea in his hand.
 How long has it been ? In this slumbering heart the violent impression of having lived the life of someone else remains. I inevitably felt a strong love for another. My heart which was not supposed to love would seek out that person ...

Then, without saying a word, the manager of the shop placed a cup of black tea and a letter on the table...

"Fiançailles"

... The train comes out of the tunnel and passes by a sparking coastal landscape, the girl I met by chance, whose name I do not know ... Is this elegant landscape reflected in her eyes ?

This train Le Vent Express ... increases its speed as if to mirror the anticipation ... I do not know the reason for your trip just the same as you ignore the reason for mine. The girl stared intently at the landscape without ever turning her eyes away.  

At that moment, from this station where we see the emerald sea, I realized that the wind was no longer blowing. The girl disappeared then, as if the sea had engulfed her.

Now, a new wind is blowing in my heart and this train on which I am the only traveler continues to roll ...

The girl with eyes as green as emeralds ... What did you see in this green emerald sea ?

Could it be a ghost that you saw between the spaces of these surging and incessant waves ? As if you were going towards the person you knew from before, you are filling this new earth, bathed in sunshine ... You lose the vision, a gleaming drop dazzles and the drop of your wrist, did you abandoned your body and your soul to offer them to this incandescent universe ?

I do not understand the reason for your trip, I have become gradually engulfed in my thoughts.

Emerald ~ You were fascinated by this sea ~

Emerald ~ I was fascinated by your pupils ~

The wind has stopped and there is only an empty landscape ... Far away the Earth is silhouetted as it turns peacefully.

Whenever I walk on this pristine white sand, the guilt that leaves my open wounds invades me. The mirage that materialized again and again makes me feel uneasy but I continue to walk.

He approaches, like the choice between turning around or continuing, between reality and dream. The reason for my trip is not to run after my dreams, nor run after the reality.

~ The sky becomes glowing red~

 I suddenly thought that it was "just a trip without a purpose" ... What I saw in this place was only the shadow of a child who did not exist ...

This mirage that I have always pursued is only the ghost of a mysterious young girl ... In this garden filled with beautiful flowers you walked innocently but when I saw your face, you disappeared and then you reappeared before my eyes letting out a laugh. You, this mysterious girl with green emerald pupils...

At this place there was also a young man who pursued her. Although he was chasing her rather joyfully, he never seemed to be able to reach her and I was exactly like this young man, pursuing this girl by infinitely pressing my steps into the sand.

This dream resembles a dream that I had when I was a child ... And what if the boy from my dream had revealed his feelings to me for the purpose of conveying them (to his beloved)?

Then, the westward setting sun was covered with an intensely dark shade, the white sand that I had stepped upon. If this unknown girl present in my childhood dream was "you"...

Whether in dreams ... or in this reality ... I will continue to pursue you.

Now let's recount the pride and the pain of this flower that will never fade...

  The French pamphlet to download with the layout of the French translation of the pamphlet,
  has been transcribed above. It was translated by Louise of  kamijoversaillestheorie
  I just merged the phrases/ songs or poems into "standard" texts in the re-transcription above..

The rest of the story transcribed above was told in the tour pamphlet "Le Vent Express" through the songs that are in a specific order. The introduction of the pamphlet begins with a summary of the story which also brings a in different angle of narration of the book "Lillie Charlotte". It all starts with Lillie and Jérémie, the White Lily and Blue Illusion. These two beings loved each other in a past life but the love they had for each other was tragic. Lillie had decided not to fight her destiny and when she died of pneumonia (hence the idea of the water lily), her beloved was lost. To make their love eternal, he transformed into a blue bird to join his beloved to heaven ... He hoped to meet her again after the centuries, in another life ...

Tic tock tick tock... time passes slowly, years, centuries ... In 1999, in our time, these two lovers are reborn and their paths end up crossing again even though they are not yet aware of the existence of their soulmate. Fate makes them encounter each other in Fiançailles. This story told here is the same as the one from the film ... to a certain detail. The young man encountered the young woman who spoke as he was leaving. He enters the cafe, and is alone there too. He recalls the girl he encountered by chance and his memory awakes without him being able to understand things ...
The manager of the cafe also gives him black tea and a letter. This character with closed eyes is a kind of messenger of Destiny that tries to bring the two souls together. The Café des Fées is a magical place existing outside of time. The following album will give an additional explanation about it.
Throughout his journey and his words, we understand that this young man who does not yet have a name is the reincarnation of the soul of Jérémie. The young woman is more clearly identified as the reincarnation of Lillie's soul in the video and by the letter addressed to her.

The two characters meet again in a train that runs along the sea. It is always him who speaks. He is fascinated by this unknown girl and tries to follow her, to find her again, but she seems to be fleeing again and forever. The young woman seems fascinated and attracted by the sea, the emerald water like the eyes of Lillie and the Lake of Reminiscence. There is the notion of travel, like an initiatory quest, and the notion of escape too. They search and flee. She loves him and flees him at the time. They encounter each other at the edge of the water like in their past life or they find themselves at the bottom of the lake water. The sea will reveal itself also very important in the continuation of the history, it is the key place, that of the awakening. The lake was the consciousness of Lillie and Jérémie.

"Billet" is a step back in the young man's childhood. He has seen in a dream a girl, a mirage that obsesses him and that he seeks her indefinitely . Childhood is again and again, a period when man is still pure from the defilements of adulthood. Lillie just came out of childhood so she was still experiencing this purity. The clip shows a fairy garden filled with flowers. The flowers are there from the beginning of this story, they surround the lovers when they meet and see each other. The flowers are ephemeral but at the same time eternal because they are reborn every spring.

Translation in english  from french by
Radha BloodRose