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

[snowandarrow]

He's an imposter...? Tsuruhime huffs and stomps her foot. She will not tolerate being lied to!

"How dare you try to deceive me! I'll have you know I met Otani-san several times, and he looked nothing like you! He was a liar too, though, so there is some resemblance," she says bitterly.

She cannot fathom why anyone would want to impersonate such a foul man! How can he expect to get away with it, even? The real Otani Yoshitsugu is well known for his illness, and this man seems as healthy as can be! And even then--

"He's dead, too! There's no way you could fool me."

[hakanai]

That is even more interesting.

Right now, the only way Yoshitsugu can reason this out is by assuming that the myriad of rumours he has surrounded himself with over the years, and the air of mystery he delibrately invokes, has been utilised by someone in order to pose as himself. There being other people by the same name as his isn't entirely impossible, but considering the young woman before him has recognised his crest that doesn't seem like the correct explanation.

"I am not deceiving you," he says, still calm and apparently unconcerned. "Nor do I have any reason to lie about who I am in a place like this."

He waves a hand in a dismissive gesture.

"Though what you believe about me does not matter either. Call me something else if you want to."

[snowandarrow]

That only makes her angrier, and she makes a frustrated noise. What does he mean it doesn't matter? Call him something else?!

"I refuse! You will tell me the truth, or I will make you regret it!" she yells (if you can call it that), her voice filled with the promise of retribution. "There's no use in trying to lie to me! The man I met was horrible and wicked, but he was not an imposter! I met him at Osaka Castle--and Mitsunari-san too!" You can't fake that sort of thing, geez!

"And no one I met gave me any reason to believe otherwise!"

That'll show him!

[hakanai]

Again Yoshitsugu doesn't seem bothered by her anger, though his curiousity does grow even further. This is an odd situation, to put it mildly, and one that's somewhat challenging to figure out. Especially as he's quite sure that this young woman does believe what she is saying.

"How mysterious."

He taps his saihai against his side.

"Mitsunari, as I know him, is a man permanently adored with a scowl and pouting lips who wears a delightfully bright and fluffy helmet adorned with golden horns, an apparent attempt at intimidation, though I do not think it works as he wishes. Does this match what you know, or will you grow even angrier?"

[snowandarrow]

What he says might give Tsuruhime pause if she were the sort of person to truly think before she speaks, but alas, she is not.

"Well, you got the scowl right, but everything else is all wrong! Mitsunari-san didn't wear a helmet at all," she says, a bit of the anger leaving her voice towards the end. "Actually, he was pretty scary on his own..." she trails off. It's a bit strange that he wouldn't know that, she realizes. Tsuruhime was in the shrine all that time, so she hadn't known, but it seemed to be common knowledge to everyone else. Otani-san's illness, too. She should mention that.

"You should give up and apologize to me for lying! You're not convincing at all. In fact, you're a terrible imposter! Everyone knows that Otani-san was sick. You look perfectly healthy to me!" She finishes with a 'hmph'. If he keeps lying after this, he is a very stubborn man.

[hakanai]

"This story grows stranger and stranger."

Yoshitsugu still isn't affected at all by Tsuru's threats. He merely watches her with an interested air; the further they get into this conversation, the less sure he is of, well, anything that might explain what's going on.

Which for him is pretty rare indeed.

"I am most definitely not sick right now, it's true. The rest of what I said is true as well."

He sits back down then and pets the firefly again, which seems happy for the attention.

"Two Yoshitsugus and two Mitsunaris... let us be grateful only one Yoshitsugu is here. No world could handle two in the same place."

[snowandarrow]

Even though she knows she shouldn't, Tsuruhime can't help but lower her guard a bit when he sits down. Even though he's totally suspicious, being affectionate to a creature like that... It's not the sort of thing Otani-san or Mitsunari-san would have done, so maybe he's not dangerous. But he's still a big fat liar!

"What? That sort of thing isn't possible," she says, narrowing her eyes. Looking around, it's obvious a lot of these people come from different places, but that's absolutely ridiculous.

"You're very pigheaded, you know. There's no point in lying anymore! You won't fool me."

[hakanai]

Pigheaded? That's a new one. Yoshitsugu has been called many, many things over the years, but that's the first time he's had that one thrown at him. It could be considered a kind of achievement!

"I'm almost certain I would fool you if I wanted to."

An insult spoken with the utmost politeness, with his gaze fixed on the content firefly.

"But right now I do not want to or need to."

[snowandarrow]

"You could not! I have learned my lesson about trusting people like you!" She sounds 100% sure of herself, but really, it's just her temper. After all she's been through since leaving the shrine, Tsuruhime isn't completely unaware of how naive she is. If only Magoichi were here... She'd definitely know what to do! But reflecting back on how she came to realize anything was wrong before...

"I bet there's not a single person who would vouch for you!"