Glimmer, glitter, shine...

[thecanopycrew]

| characters | Everyone!

| date/time | March 15, all day

| location | First Floor

| rating | Currently G

| summary | A flash of light, and a new adventure.


LIGHT

Warmth, love and kindness.
The Life Stream glimmers and glitters with joy, swirls of shimmering dust dancing around the ray of life.
It was time for new ones to test their wings.


One by one, new adventurers now arrive in the Tree. As one gain wings and rises to the second floor, another light brings in the next person. Soon, a steady stream of people from all kinds of worlds, times and realities come to join the others. Whether confused, angry, excited or scared, your arrival is welcomed with nothing but joy as the fireflies and glow worms descend to greet their new friends.

The Tree offers no explanation and no reason, but the truth is undeniable.

As you will soon realize, it isn't easy to be tiny.

Comments

[monster_san]

So he was named after Otoni Yoshitsugu and he was a wizard. Today was filled with wonders. "I see..." Possibly better than he assumed.

Strategist. What... a coincidence. "I hope you weren't pulled away from the middle of a battle, Otoni-san." Fuu touched her cheek nervously, wondering if that would be too much like prying. "But it is good to have a weapon here, I think, and to think strategically."

[hakanai]

"Oh, I was pulled from the end of a battle."

He taps the saihai into his free hand, sounding nonchalant.

"Nobody left on those plains expects me to return, and coming here interrupts nothing."

Mitsunari might still have some hope that Yoshitsugu and Sakon will turn up out of nowhere, but that naive fool never could stop his emotions from overruling his sense.

(Though Yoshitsugu is perhaps the bigger fool for finding himself so moved by that emotion; enough to knowingly give his life for Mitsunari's sake).

"I can live here without a concern."

[monster_san]

That was a very... unusual set of statements, and almost ambiguous. But Fuu couldn't think of any good implications for it was the end of the battle and nobody expects me to return.

...Otani Yoshitsugu had died in battle, hadn't he? He had killed himself! But he had been a very sick man, if she remembered correctly, leprosy, unable to walk. This Otani was standing tall and strong. (Which was even more unusual if he was dead.) And he had magic... but... she couldn't exactly ask things like what year is it? or who commanded your side?

"I... think I understand," she said quietly. She didn't know how to react. He seemed entirely unbothered by his situation, either being dead or resurrected, or maybe pulled just before his life ended.

[hakanai]

"Do you?"

A blunt challenge, though it wasn't spoken forcefully. Yoshitsugu accepted his fate, after all; he wasn't concerned about anyone asking questions regarding his past, but neither was he about to provoke anyone into doing so... well.

That wasn't entirely true.

"Hououji Fuu... what do you intend to do in this place?"

[monster_san]

Fuu went a little pink. As calm as Otani seemed about the whole situation, she didn't want to be blunt in turn and speak her conclusions aloud. "I don't think it's my business." This was... entirely strange. It would be too much of a coincidence for these to be two different Otanis, both dying in battle. But just as clearly, the Otani Yoshitsugu she'd learned about in school didn't use magic or go around hitting people with his saihai.

Unless perhaps the historians had missed several very important details.

In any case... his second question provoked just as much thought as the first. What would she do? She had never considered that this would happen a second time. "I... am not sure yet," she admitted. "Find out why we are here and by whose hand... and what they want to accomplish." She brought her hand to her lips, fingers clenched tight. "The whole truth of it."