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This winter is particularly aggressive.
Enough so that you can't hear a soul around you.
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That's a good thing, I'd say.
There's much less to filter out.
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They'll tell me as soon as I'm home.
That they've chosen me as the Ambassador; that I'm to set for -that- shrine as soon as the frost clears.
I can already imagine it. The door sliding open, news striking before I can brush off the rime or take my shoes off.
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tap.
They're sending me to a much louder place.
I should just... stand here and empty my head. If I don't go inside, then I won't be obligated to travel abroad.
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fwooooooshhhh...
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"I'm cold."
tap.
They're sending me to a much louder place.
I should just... stand here and empty my head. If I don't go inside, then I won't be obligated to travel abroad.
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fwooooooshhhh...
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"I'm cold."
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If the alternative is to freeze to death, then that's just very unfortunate.
A very Yueliang way to go.
I can't have that...
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The door's right there, the news are surely behind. I can read them in the air.
The shikigami keep whispering them, louder each step nearer I draw.
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My words to them are so predictable, a rookie could read them in the tea leaves at the bottom of the cup.
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
"So be it."
tap
tap.
If the alternative is to freeze to death, then that's just very unfortunate.
A very Yueliang way to go.
I can't have that...
tap
...
tap
tap
The door's right there, the news are surely behind. I can read them in the air.
The shikigami keep whispering them, louder each step nearer I draw.
.
.
.
My words to them are so predictable, a rookie could read them in the tea leaves at the bottom of the cup.
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
"So be it."