The Day of Thunder

"Hmm."

She pondered that statement.

"How one determines which are the stupid ones... that is the trick."

"Went into Jigoku."

She wasn't sure if she should be incredulous, but somehow she believed him.

"I am sorry I am not able to meet him. I feel someone like that may be the sort we really needed for this festival."

Rather than someone like me.

Yukara was on the bridge again. She felt the clammy air creeping over her skin as she ran, struggling over the spongy and half-rotted boards, feeling her ankle twist as she stumbled. She had been here so many times. She felt the weakness in her body of her younger self - untrained. Unprepared for th...

He smiles at the both of them warmly. "Your kindness does you credit. That it survived everything going on does you more. Hold onto that." He sighed. "As for that... I simply have my own battles to fight, and my own role in this to act out. It is wearing a bit, but I promise I will rest when I've d...

"Indeed. I have not come far, but every day here is a day not spent on my own tasks... and a day spent without an answer to the larger sickness that plagues the land." She affixed the garden with a pensive look. "The wheel may turn, but it feels that it spins too quickly these days. Souls coming and...

"Ah. Rivers. Did you know apparently people travel on them? Such recklessness..." Yukara nodded, looking uncomfortable, and then pivoted. "Yet if you choose it, I suppose that makes as much sense as any path - especially in this era. We live in interesting times, miss Fox. I am not so sure I put gre...

"No." She gazed at him, unflinching.

"I would like to."

Yukara glanced at her bisento.

"I do not know what name it should have. It simply is my weapon. I have had it since it was created." She ran a hand affectionately over the gnarled and carved wood of the haft. "I count it a faithful companion, but not a talkative one."

"We are not so different then, it would seem." Yukara didn't sound particularly happy about that. "I had hoped you would have a better path than mine - but it sounds as though we are all still searching for that better path." Tucking away her beads again, she straightened. "Do you intend to be one o...

Yukara simply listened. Then she nodded. "If this will stop the madness, I will take that risk." It was said quietly enough, more for her own sake than any others. So this was to be the place of deciding - if her actions were justified, or if she were but another monster in a world descending into m...

Canary wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 24, 2023 9:43 pm

why did i sign up to write so many fucking monks

I only signed up to write one, and that's bad enough.

"It does not seem particularly hard to find these days."

Running prayer beads through her left hand, she leaned on the bisento, seemingly balancing against it, in defiance of any sensible form of gravity.

"What do you do when you find it, miss fox?"

That sounds like a thread players could make that people post to when something new is posted.

Often we do have one of our more spreadsheet capable folks start organizing fail/pass lists. Just nobody felt that bug yet I guess.

"Beiden pass? Is that far south?" She sounded genuinely curious. "Are there mountains down south as well? I have not ever been able to travel. This is the farthest I have ever gone, and I cannot say it is particularly far from...." She didn't say home. After an awkward moment of thought, she offered...

"That is an outlook."

Yukara chuckled. "So then, how do you spend your time, when you are avoiding looking at your cooking pot?"

Yukara covered her nose with her sleeve, scowling at the revelry. Someone should be sober. Just in case. That was what she told herself, at any rate. Not that she couldn't dance, didn't know how to even begin to take part in such an event. It was definitely concern for the people around her. That wa...

"Yes. I suspect I might."

Yukara did not sound particularly happy about that.

"The waiting is often the hardest part. You are always wondering if you have found it... and then quite suddenly you have an answer."

"A small village that no longer appears on any maps, and never will." She didn't show much emotion when discussing it - perhaps long at peace with it, or disassociated, perhaps. "When bandits were driven from the lowlands, they came to my home. I lived with a monk as his student for many years. In t...

"I do not know him, I fear I should, but my knowledge does not spread far from these foothills."

Her cheeks were red, probably just because of the heat. "Is he a friend of rock-shinsei? Or of you, honored elder?" The latter directed to Sora.

Yukara trawled her recent memory, before offering, "Shinsei. He did not introduce himself, and the rock is very... distinct." With a small shrug, she added, "I still cannot determine if the beast is here, or if this place is playing tricks on me." It sounded as though she wasn't very happy about tha...