The Day of Thunder

"Oh, if you're looking for the village, it's not too far from here," she said before turning to point toward the direction she came from. "As for me, I'm not from the village exactly. In fact, you'll find that not many of us are, considering that we've all arrived from abroad. Some because of the Fe...

A moment of your time, please! Thank you!

"I've only been here for a few days, so I confess I don't know if I'll become familiar with all aspects of the village immediately. I can only judge from my previous destinations and where I've stayed. It just feels so peculiar and I'm sure we've all gotten off on the wrong foot with this place. The...

"It was a fine gathering, although I'm easily pleased if the hostess does the bare minimum with hospitality. I'm honestly surprised that they could throw another gathering so soon after the festival. Some villages have trouble enough getting through the winter with their stock and here they are just...

(OOC: Likewise!)

After the gathering, Shang took the opportunity to meander around the village rounds to work the food (and alcohol) out of her system before bed. For whatever reason, she did feel a bit braver to see more of the village and their curiosities. Supposedly, the shrine was closed and she didn't really q...

Shang finished her portion with another bite and chew. She put away the chopsticks and dusted her hands away. "That's not too usual. Maybe we just caught a strange season where everything just looks so strange. Impending destiny doesn't help either, of course! We can only take it one day at a time b...

"Writing things definitely helps when you don't want to put too much strain on your memory, although then you'll have the obligation to remember it all. Nobody exactly likes an unreliable narrator but you don't suppose that there's a mystique to deciphering it all? That's all thought for later, any...

"It does sound like a pretty lousy situation, now that you've put it into perspective, Hiruma-sama. We're being intentionally besieged on both sides to make things difficult, damned if we forsake one or the other, but that is likely the intention from what you've made it sound? And yes, I would cons...

After another nibble, Shang nodded sounded at that. "Mm! It does hit the spot after a few drinks, at least. A fine suggestion on the part of our host. Really kind of them to be so generous with their food and drinks too. I could only imagine that it had to be a fruitful harvest prior to our arrival....

"Oh, I used to be the White Tiger of the West, or Tiger for short. Fled from Yume-dō to the mortal realm to escape the advance of the darkness. You know, standard stuff. I'm sure I'm not even in the top five of strangest living things in this village." Shang gave Kai a few big blinks at the given a...

Shang casually nibbled on her portion of chicken, perhaps her appetite wasn't as large as she imagined but she was still going to finish her portion. "No, I suppose not...I can think of at least one situation where some lands in the Empire are more remote than others. Just because your county is und...

"I say the fortifications being built up yesterday and I've pitched in on the effort," she chuckled self-deprecatingly, "at least I tried to. The experience at least gave me a good idea of where to stand when the fighting starts rather than flailing my arms about. So you can count me on to be at lea...

"Ohh...hmmm..." she pursed her lip in thought as she had been assuming that Akutou was a vagrant prior to the story. It took a moment for her to try to rethink the situation. "Being part of the Otomo already, what incited you to pick O-lemoto's pocket exactly? I assumed that you were lacking in coin...

"...at least, I think the forest did," Shang said, a bit unsure. It was unnerving enough that it seemed better to forget about it than dwell too long on that thought, especially considering their increasingly depressing circumstances. "I'm certain I heard some voices asking me to lay down or to draw...

Shang gasped loudly when the unexpected figure appeared from the dense fog, which nearly caused her to stumble back before she could properly sit down. With everything being so quiet, she didn't expect to see someone else wandering here. Perhaps there were many people here but the fog was doing a go...

"Whoa. Now I am starting to get concerned you are more akin to the Sun Lioness, whose servants have to keep drunk at all time she is not asleep, for she would destroy the world in anger was she sober. Though I am not sure she actually exists, as this was from a tale Spider brought from beyond the w...

"That would make for a rather hollow rock, wouldn't it?" She brought up with raised brows. "It would make a lot of sense why he's been able to haul the rock around this entire time. However, if he had his answers already, he would be leading us on the entire time? Keeping us in suspense? That would ...

Tapping out for sleep.

But it's honest work. (Day 3, Mid Afternoon)