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Posted: May 13, 2016
From: Kainé

she sells seashells by the seashore

i dont know what the hell she was thinking. not going to make a lot of money is she? maybe she just really fucking loves selling seashells. weird thing to get attached to.

which witch is which

probably doesnt matter dumbass its a witch either way.

i scream you scream we all scream for ice cream

no thanks.

[That wasn't in reaction to a recent proposition or spying on her god chatting about her again, nooo... Never.]

[Private to Aditi, Sharak Sanzo.]

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look how much i dont hate you that i didnt buy this

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Of course. How are you at recitation?

Let's see, if you can manage it five times fast you can pick one for me to read aloud.

[Jokes on Hakkai, Kainé recently discovered she is excellent at tongue twisters. Voice reply it is!]

Toy boat, toy boat, toy boat, toy boat, toy boat, with a victory lap toy boat, toy fucking boat.

[She is very pleased with herself.]

One smart fellow, he felt smart.

Ha ha, it's easier if you put a word between them, you know!

One smart fellow, he felt smart... [He'll just go on to repeat that five times with annoyingly precise diction.]

Let's see.... Red leather, yellow leather?

[Rats. Seeing an old man stumble over that one would have been amusing. Kainé doesn't sound as pompous in her recitation, still more smug than anything, but her red leather, yellow leathers still go off without a hitch.]

She said she should sit.

[Hakkai fires five neatly pronounced repetitions of that tongue-twister right back at her. Then, moderating his tone to careful innocence, he adds:] Sorry, were you hoping for a shitty response?

So to speak.

You're really very good at these.

[Her disappointment changes into a snicker at his comment, making her intentions all the more transparent. She's twenty, she's allowed to be this childish still...]

Yeah, I know. [yeeees] You're not bad yourself.

Why, thank you! I try.

[He's only twenty-three: he's not above the occasional childish moment himself.

Occasional. He chuckles quietly.]

Kainé, was it? Pleased to meet you. I'm Cho Hakkai.

[Nah, he's an old man.]

Look at that. Even got that one right. [She doesn't know how common her name is, but she hasn't really seen anyone with different characters in their name yet.] I'm gonna reserve judgement. You're not as boring as your diction suggests, anyway.

Don't they say never to judge a book by its slipcover?

[That's followed by another light laugh. It's hard to tell from his tone whether he actually thinks it's funny, but he doesn't sound offended.]

You're sharper than your apostrophe use might indicate, too.

[Backhanded compliments all around!]

Sure. There's a big difference between being an idiot and just not giving a shit.

[But also she's still...getting used to these phone things...]

Indeed there is. [It took him a while to get used to them, too. And it's still annoyingly difficult to type with claws, which is why he hasn't bothered to switch back to text.

But he's always been a little bit of a stickler for proper grammar.]

May I ask, are you a shinki or a god? [It's hard to tell with a single name he doesn't recognize. There are some gods who go by a single name like that on the network, and Hakkai's far from recognizing every unusual otherworldly deity that might appear.]

You can ask, as long as I get to ask why the hell it matters, first.

[it's suspicious]

[And points to her for asking. Hakkai appreciates paranoia: it's a good sign in a world where they don't know exactly who might be on their side.]

Well, I ask because it's not obvious from your name, but as for why it matters... haven't you found that shinki have a somewhat different perspective on matters around here?

[And, frankly, he's more comfortable around them than around strange gods. It's the power differential. Nothing personal, of course.]

While there may be no difference between us before we're assigned our roles, there are a few differences between us now.

Huh. My god doesn't seem to think so.

[shinki, yo.]

I almost have to kick her teeth in to make her think about treating me like a weapon for a while.

Neither of my gods have liked the idea, either. It may be a good sign. After all, it would be tiresome teaching humility to the sort of person who believed becoming a god did make them different.

[Imagine all those ass-kickings you'd have to apply! Who has that much free time?]

Hopefully she's willing to use you, at least?

[This isn't another one of those gods who thinks it's somehow wrong to transform their shinki... is it?]

[Legs would definite get tired after a while... Kainé grunts her agreement.]

Yeah, sure. [...Probably.] Just would rather sit around smoking or use a gun instead.

[This almost sounds like Genjo Sanzo, shinki version, somehow transformed into a goddess. Hakkai makes a thoughtful sound into the phone.]

She sounds like someone I know....

But a gun isn't going to do her very much good against an ayakashi.

[Funny, that.]

She knows. She will call me. If I'm not already there.

[She's a little...fiercely loyal, also bloodthirsty. Kinda.]

[That's something they have in common. Under Hakkai's cheerful tone, there's perhaps a little too much stress on the approval.]

Good. It's always nice to hear of new gods who are willing to be sensible!

She knows it's my choice to fight by her side.

[And she's veeeery concerned about security, but we're keeping that to ourselves.]

Just gets bothered thinking about the unlikely event of me not wanting to but being forced to. Not a bad quality, just tiring.

It's not a bad quality, no.

... You can always reassure her with the thought that, if she calls you and you don't want to fight, you'll likely sting her for it.

[Shinki may be at a god's mercy for their actions, but the gods are at a shinki's mercy for punishment.]

[She knows nothing of this business...]

I don't use bullshit flowery language like that, and she already knows I'll kick her ass.

Oh, I'm sure. I meant "sting," though, not "beat."

... Has anyone explained to you about stinging?

[New shinki. Hakkai holds back a sigh: he had promised Yukine to help educate the newcomers. Learning about what a sting is might be one of the most important things they'll learn.]

[She gives her phone a Look before remembering that it doesn't...work that way... She grunts instead.]

Hasn't come up before.

[Hakkai's tone shades into helpfully neutral teacher-voice, not entirely deliberately.]

As shinki, we're meant to be our gods' moral compasses. That means, if we do something or are forced to do something that we feel guilty for -- that we feel is wrong -- we and our gods will both be affected with blight. It's painless for shinki, although you'll be able to see a mark, usually on your neck or back.

[Not that he's had plenty of opportunity to see where blight marks appear on a shinki's body, so far. Certainly not.]

For gods, it causes pain, which is why it's known as "stinging" your god.

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