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WHAT In person or texting, I don't know, I'm not your boss
WHERE Wherever you'd be at night
WHEN Day 1, night
NOTES aj said i was allowed to make a new post

[So, you've survived your first—or fiftieth, or five-hundredth—day in Quiet Mounds. Tonight, it's raining—or, it's not. Maybe you're trying to get used to your new, quiet apartment. The electricity is buzzing in that way that's hard to ignore, a silence so loud it's deafening, in that poetic sort of way.]

[Or maybe you're one of the sad sacks still working at the 24/7 joints. Or their why-am-I-even-up-this-late customers. You're the reason why capitalism does this to people, you know.]

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... yes, a dragon. A god.

Lung Tai-Zhi.

Nice to meet you. You look like you're enjoying the rain.

It is part of what I am.

[ a pause ]

Of course I'm enjoying it.

It's refreshing.

Something like that.

You enjoy the rain? Many don't.

[raises his face skyward]

I can dry off later. There's nothing wrong with rain!

... quite so.

[ maybe. a bit companionably. ]

[hands out and feeling the drops on his palms, quiet and smiling as they take in the weather]

[ since he's come closer the electricity has certainly chilled out-- only tiny blue sparks here and there, dancing over his clothes or horns.

but he remains quiet for now. ]

...I wonder if it's raining right now at home.

Are you very homesick?

Maybe a just little.

[ hums, lightly. ]

I understand.

What's home like for you?

...

Paradise.

Oh . . . I'm sorry.

It is what it is.

[ though clearly irritated at the thought of this place. ]

And you?

My home is in Meifu. It's not perfect, but it's where my friends are.

And what is that?

Ah... where souls go before they are judged. It looks like the human world for the most part and we shinigami live there.

[ ?????? ]

We do not have such a thing. Souls are collected by the proper spirits and delivered to the King of Heaven, where they are reincarnated or put to rest.

[surprised]

We have Lord Enma.

We're probably from different worlds...

That seems likely. Did you assume we weren't? There are rarely human spirits that aid in any sort of soul collecting, in my world.

You looked like a shikigami so I was hoping... [:c] Oh well.

What are those spirits like?

Birds of our realm carry the souls of the dead to Heaven.

And what is a "shikigami"?