I mean. I'm not active, so I do not think my 3 do much of anything. (though I'm willing to toss at a Bat-related goal if allowed) Since points are granted to individuals and not clans. Which goes for Tsubaki as well. I wouldn't think they'd just revert. If someone had a personal goal of 'joining the...

The week of too much overtime has pretty much eaten my motivation to get posts going. I enjoyed the few threads I was able to do any posting in, but I'll be sticking to lurking now.

Yua cradles the cup in her hands. "That is the aspect of fire I know best, though it obviously has a destructive one as well." Setting the tea down, she reaches for her wakizashi, pausing to ask, "I'd show you rather than just describe it, if that's ok?" Assuming permission is granted, she places it...

Given my posting window, I'm going to toss fear roll ghosting instructions (which is a pun I really can't avoid) at someone. Today got super, extra long at work and tomorrow may as well.

In her quiet monotone, Yua followed on the teachings Rei had amply demonstrated, stressing that while the elemental kami were indeed separate and knowable entities, they, like everything and everyone, rested upon and were held together by the connections of the Void. She'd have preferred to demonstr...

I love the sound of that, particularly keeping the reactions in the thread.

"Takes time to build them. Though I'm surprised there weren't some down there that the Crab-built already. Seems the kind of thing they'd put some energy toward pretty early on." Of course, they might also have been pissed enough to tear them down on the way out too. "Not fond of the river crossing?...

"I..." eyes downcast, smile a bit sheepish, she shakes her head. "I mean...I try to watch the world for signs extra carefully after visiting the shrines. But I think I'm just convincing myself there. But here," she looks up again, catching his eyes, "surely Lady Sun watches more closely here, where ...

"Thank you Satsuki.." there's a small pause with the urge to add *something* to the kami-child's name, but she resists it. "I appreciate the effort to make everything so comfortable. I was born among the Ayakashi when the Kami came to the realm, but was very young when we left." Relax, enjoy, maybe ...

Yua laughs with precisely the sort of low chuckle you'd expect with that voice. It's short and she seems almost a bit surprised at it. "It certainly does. That's a huge river, if I remember right." Etiquette classes may have been sparse, but she'd picked up some geography of the Empire somewhere alo...

"A fire? And found by the Kami herself?" Two of those little questioning lifts in a row actually makes her sound rather excited after all this time with her even voice. "A mark for sure. Perhaps she touched you? Or some departing protective spirit did." After all, if he were left to be adopted after...

The Bat is rather the opposite of energetic, slow and deliberate in both movement and expression as she nods. She seems to belong more to the winter, everything blanketed in snow. But her smile, while slow to form and every bit as slight as she is, is sincere. "It was deemed time I went with the del...

"I am honored, Togashi Satsuki-sama," she said from her bow. Her warm monotone was not well suited to expression, but there was something of awe to the depth of her bow and the length it was held before straightening to really see the young Dragon and her refreshments. There was a reserve to the Bat...

"Oh people are as easy as ghosts..." she says with a small shrug, "mostly easier since I need no offering to talk to them. But if he were one, I'd have some obligations to talk to him more is all." "And all the ghosts I have run into so far were people once." Head tilting with some small curiosity, ...

"Moved the world. Hmmm." There is a small sigh. "So now we come back to wondering what this...happening now...might move and change. Maybe I'll have some idea tomorrow when I can stand to think about all those words again." She sets the spoon down, flexing her hands. "They're just stiff now, but I'm...

A small nod and faint smile are offered in greeting, along with, "good to see you again," before Yua took the opening and shuffled through the door, a bit burdened by the extra layers. She'll bow much more deeply approaching the Dragon princess. Bits of leather and bead ornaments in her hair swingin...

There's a faraway look, "I think he's talking to more than the Emperor, yes, but..." There's a pause to take a bite of her porridge and think this idea through, chewing both. "Some wisdom is for everyone. And then there's some that I think you only need when you have some power and need to hold it w...

Yua had never been intended as a particularly courtly presence here, and being stuck by the snow certainly hadn't changed that. So she answered Ko's note with some pleasure for the excuse to stay away from a court that didn't much need her, given the more adept members of her clan present. Meeting w...

There is a slow shake of her head. "No, I can lose myself in the work of the forge. Forget I have a body that needs food. Needs sleep. Forget everything but the work in my head and my hands. But... I am not really losing anything, I'm just pouring it into what is being made. I can sometimes see the ...

"I think," Yua says slowly, as if the thought is still compiling into actual words after the day of having to keep her own thoughts well away from the flow of words to avoid tampering with them. "I think that this is perhaps practical for gods? While most monks are trying to teach mere people who ha...