Kyuden Shika

Shizuka counts on this list of those who have not yet found a match but, again, she hasn't exactly been looking.

An invitation to sit? Well, why not? Shizuka joined the Lion in a sitting, though perhaps hardly what dojo were for. "Now what else would a Lion like to know about my family's shrine, hmm?" She asked airily. "It's...well... defensible , as shrines go." Shizuka joked lightly about the Lion predilecti...

Tap tap. Shizuka tapped her kiseru bowl into a container in the wooden tote box she brought about with her everywhere. A small clump of ashes fell away. "Maybe people just smoke to smoke. It's a good way to while away the time. Helps conversation. It's like drinking in that way." The silence that fo...

Bedtime for box.

"No, but many people do think that." Shizuka's playfulness seems to vanish as talk turns to theological matters. "While there are shrines dedicated to Our Lady along the route, there are many more to local spirits and other major Fortunes - or even both, like my family's shrine." She seemed quite pr...

Tamping a wad of tabako into the pipe with her little finger, Shizuka brought the same digit near a lantern and beseeched the kami of the flames within. A small flame answered her call, dancing about her fingertip from little to ring to middle to index and that the Moshi brought to her pipe. She was...

Oh, if you insist, though what is there to tell?" Shizuka gave a stock answer, besotted with expected, false, modesty. "My family are the inheritors of a shrine of some note along the main pilgrimage road to Amaterasu Seido. As their eldest, I suppose one day I may likely be chosen to carry on the t...

"Denying it?" Shizuka looked at her empty tea cup. A small smile tugged at the edges of her lips. She steadied herself against the side of the table. Were her hands shaking? "I deny nothing. A river runs downhill, but with ingenuity and effort, you channel it into paddies and orchards on its way dow...

Oh, she was going to be sore the rest of the day. It had been quite a while since Shizuka had been manhandled so thoroughly. Such is the way these things go sometimes, though.

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"Upon our first meeting, Kitsu-san?" Shizuka chides lightly. "I don't know what you were expecting, but that's not the way the daughters of the Moshi are brought up." Still, she looked amused. "Mm. Quite witty, though. And quite unlike your other kinsman whom I met previously. Would happen to know h...