The Day of Thunder

"I remember the chase. The thing coming after me. I wasn't afraid then. Still not afraid now." She continued, pursing her lips, feeling her vigor being restored. "Who is he? Shinsei?" Confusion scrawled across her features. "I ... do not rightly remember what that thing was. I believe it was a shad...

“You don’t need to say more than you want.” She reassured her even while noticing the depth of the emotion behind the response. “I’m not sure you will need to be adopted… Shinsei himself was sure to lead the Thunders into the last fight…” She began. “If he cannot be reclaimed by then… Then they wil...

"Twice. What do you mean twice, Auntie?" She looked to Nozomi, eyes wide. Watching her, while trying to remain calm. "He tried to knock me down. Couldn't manage that, not with the strength in my blood and the might of Bishamon." She replied, still keeping steady. "What happened the first time?" "Wh...

“What about you?” She asked with an intent look on her face. “I don’t know the specifics of your past with Shinsei… But I know you two are close…” She paused, “You say ‘you lot’… But I wonder if there isn’t something special about you being here… And him… being what he is right now.” She swallowed....

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Mon Nov 06, 2023 10:33 pm

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"Don't rule it out," she said with a small, dark laugh. "He would never expect someone to hit him with the rock. He's been hauling it around for years. Nobody can lift that thing. But... I... will remain calm. I won't do something foolish. It would make things much worse."

“How do we do that?” She asked with genuine earnestness. She breathed. It was very careful, very cautious. Low, reedy breaths. 'How? You kill my husband. That's how.' No, Sugri was right. There were alternatives as long as he was fighting it, but she was struggling with the reality that this might ...

"Twice, twice this has happened," she said, trying to find something to focus on rather than the horror of it as she pulled the flap back and came over carefully. She looked at the wounds and bruises and winced. Those definitely looked like the sort of thing that would have happened in a sparring ma...

She sagged as she could see him beginning to ease, some of the pain fading. Her head hung and she rested one hand on a tent pole, trying to control her reactions. She would want to meditate when this was over. "I... I don't want to fight him. I'm ready. I know what has to be done if he falls, but I ...

Nozomi had to ask around a little to find Matsu, but once she knew where she was staying, she was already making her way to her friend's tent, making a thumping sound outside and calling out. "Matsu, are you in there? Are you alright?!?" She sounded... desperate in a way, almost frantic. Her eyes we...

“I know that tendency well… I’ve got parents who do the same thing.” She replied in a somber tone. “Who guides us in this fight if not Shinsei…?” She asked. "I have only met your father ... briefly. I am never comfortable in the company of the kami. They are so far above us that I feel dwarfed. But...

"Moving with the flow of the air like wind?" Anjing blinks, looking back at where the bird had been. "...Like a bird? Can you fly?" It wasn't entirely clear whether she was being serious. "Good you can handle yourself, I said to the other monk that here you're either a warrior or you're not, and if...

She nodded, “I saw him about a month ago… He was not his normal… self then either. And here he seems to have been almost sickly when I last saw him.” She asked softly, “What is happening to him?” "The old fool has been taking on too much for years. You've been seeing him as he slowly degrades, shou...

She breathed a sigh of relief and nodded, stepping up close to inspect his body. It took a moment with the kind of extensive damage he'd experienced, but her atemi strikes came smoothly enough a moment later, the refreshing flow of chi starting to reach his neck, slowly. "Don't speak much until you'...

She glared at the old bird for a moment and nodded. "I know that. He nearly did it to you, so don't think I don't know that's how it would have ended. I'd have hesitated to raise my tonfa, and he'd have cut me down, if he didn't do it in my sleep. But let me say this, ok?" She couldn't help how she ...

She lifted her hand slightly as if asking for a pause. “Before that… How do you know he was himself? There is part of me that is very worried… About anything he may have said in recent memory.” She almost snapped. There was a split second where she nearly lost it and shouted things that she had sai...

-snip- "Th...ank you," she said after a moment, taking a sip of the tea. Her hand shook. It jostled the cup slightly and she set it down as she seated herself. There was no need to risk losing her grip. She had to get a handle on herself. This was a lot for her to handle. "Then you are aware. I... ...

She marched up towards Ukyou with a fierce look in her eyes, looking at the harm that had been done there. "I should have been there. I should have, but ... we kept doing this insane hiding in separate tents." She would have died. She knew it. She still felt it. "How badly injured are you still?" At...

"We would die. Or worse. It is unavoidable. Alone, there is nothing that we could do other than become a threat. I know it, but I am having to fight the wish to enter the darkness, to bash that fool's head in with his own boulder." She grunted. She couldn't even lift that thing, but she wanted to do...

Nozomi had been looking around for several people. there were people she couldn't find under the circumstances. There were others she'd managed to track down. The chaos in the aftermath had made it difficult, especially since it wasn't being freely notified to everyone quite as much as she'd expecte...

Kyosei jerked slightly at the voice, then turned and gave a startled nod. "Nozomi? Ah, that is, Nozomi-san? Another I know here. And those I expected not here. Ah, good morning. Have you eaten yet?" He calls up his memory for a food stand or the like nearby that he might have seen. "Was about to ge...