Kyuden Shika

"Again, you flatter me, Kitsu-san." Shizuka artfully hides a blush which, given her use of cosmetics, likely wasn't going to show through anyway.

"Shall we dine, then?"

"But there is beauty in that harshness, so I'm told. I had a visitor from Dragon lands once who said as much; they had no complaints about the weather in my family's lands but found it too sedate for their liking." Pausing to have some of the food on offer, Shizuka concluded her thought. "I suppose ...

"Quite well," Shizuka replied with politeness demanded by such small-talk. She accepted the invitation to enter.

"And as to you, Kitsu-san, how has the Lady Sun found your day to be?"

"Until next we meet, then." Shizuka responded. While she could do nothing about her feet, she did meet the Kitsu's gaze as she returned the bow.

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"Enough to keep the crops watered." Shizuka ventured. "It's pleasant there, mostly: even when it rains, the sun shines through the clouds to remind us of the Lady Sun's grace." "After all," The priestess said with the beginnings of a wry smirk, "that means the clouds are not that thick and the rain ...

"Ah, compared to the Lady Sun, I am nothing but the palest reflection of Her light." Shizuka answered modestly. "Though, as surely as She rises in the east each day, so too will I come to see you once more at your invitation, Kitsu-san."

"Is that so?" Shizuka inquired, after having tried some of the meal lest it get cold. Or lest the mood of the host be similarly chilled by the lack of partaking. "The mountains of the Dragon surely see rain, do they not? The popular image of them, shrouded by clouds and fog, thick at the feet with f...

As with the previous evening, Shizuka was fashionably late. The makeup took time to put on, after all, and even years of practice didn't make moving around in all those robes any easier. Still, there she was, rapping quietly upon the door. "Good evening, Kitsu-san. I, Moshi Shizuka, have arrived."

"I must admit an unfamiliarity with the details of his story, Kitsu-san." Oh, Shizuka heard some of the stories of the legendary Ikoma, of course. Stories which ought probably not be repeated in polite company. "And an opportunity to hear of them and take dinner with good company is not one to be pa...

"One seems to flow into the other towards the day when our hosts will match us with our intended." Shizuka remarked rather wistfully, taking in the sights outside. "It is not so bad, though the persistent rain dampens my spirits. I am not familiar with Deer lands, so I don't know if this much rain i...