The Day of Thunder

"He said I would find an answer here - I hope it is an answer to the madness."

Her expression darkened. "My efforts thus far have only delayed it - and at cost. I do not wish to continue like this for my remaining days. I do not know that I would last."

"Ah. Hello Jiyo Sora, Resident Codger, and Otomo Akutou." She shifted, wrapping the robe a little tighter, even underwater, and then gave a contented sigh as the heat eased knotted muscles. "I am Ryoshun Yukara." Scratching the bridge of her nose, she continued, "I did not mean to interrupt your con...

The porch was surprisingly clear.

Yukara had swept aside her own clutter, making space, and then stepped to the side.

She could be a considerate sentinel, albeit a creepy one.

She considered that. She hadn't intended to let anyone force something onto her, but she also didn't see how she should restrain others... provided they weren't like... them. That had been a line crossed - but this was not that. It actually made her blush a little more, that he felt concern of some ...

I suppose I should attempt to sleep instead of listening to pokemon music all night.

A newcomer arrived at the bath. It seemed it was a woman. Scrawny, wrapped in a rough robe, Yukara had decided she really should be clean. It was easy enough to wash off, even if it was uncomfortably hot, but now she came to the pools... the water bubbling and moving... She gazed at it with a stubbo...

Late Afternoon hotel (roof) shopping.

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Yukara hadn't had much luck among the trees, and now she wandered the town, casting her gaze about, bisento tapping a steady tempo as she walked. Perhaps one of these homes would have a well shaped roof suitable for habitation. Or a stall. Or a tree in town. Something. It occurred to her that maybe ...

Nao began to panic as she looked to the sky. She had forgotten there would be fireworks. The bloom of firiery color filled her eyes and her body twitched involuntarily and she fell to the ground. This drew Yukara, distracting from anything else she might have seen. She materialized behind the two h...

She seemed confused, turning over his question in her mind.

"I do not know. It has not happened before. I do not know how I should respond."

Her face was a little pink, and she added, "I do not think I have the right to tell you how you should behave, Norikage of Bayushi."

Yukara simply gazed upward, the flashes of light reflecting in her amber eyes, as if backlit by fire.

The noise and spectacle seemed to have drowned out her perception of any darker purpose that might have surrounded her.

Failure becomes us.

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That was met with an utterly deadpan expression.

After a moment she glanced back and forth, and then gestured back at herself.

"With me?"

"Hmm. That is a noble goal, miss Fox."

She shook her head. "If you hear anything, please share. I keep getting a feeling as if... something is standing behind me. It is very distracting."

Twitching, as if shrugging off an invisible hand, she added, "You also feel as if there is a threat, then?"

"It is." Yukara shrugged. "Normally a place this... unusual... has already turned. That all present are still themselves is itself strange. I keep expecting something to go awry, and it makes me itch." The way she said it made it almost sound like she was offended by the lack of monsters attacking h...

This drew a look of genuine consternation, and she gazed more carefully at the handful of bugs she had not yet extricated, as if checking them for signs of bribery. Then glancing at herself, as if wondering if she carried something of importance or value, and then finding nothing, glancing around th...

"Writings?"

Yukara looked genuinely surprised. Literacy and peasants were not often combined.

"Have you read these writings?"

"I would assume so - a wise man would not go to such lengths for no purpose at all." She sighed, and extricated another bug from her bag, before hopping down gracefully. "I do not believe these trees will make a good resting place. I will have to continue searching. And you, Norikage, did you find w...

"Which word came to you?"

Yukara inquired, leaning against her bisento with an odd ease - as if it were quite natural to lean against a stick braced against nothing.

"This is such a varied gathering, I wonder if we all came as answer to the same call."

"Maybe it just sounded like something I have heard before." Her expression remained troubled, but she turned her gaze back to Norikage. "I am sorry to hear it's been going bad everywhere - I had hoped it was only in the desperate little hamlets that dot the foothills. Places always one bad season fr...