#mayikeda

[fivetailedfacades]

She'd had to wander further than she expected to find it, but she was quite pleased with the results. As promised, the fabric held a scent almost the same as her friend's, and was made quite finely. Occasionally on her trek back, she'd take it out to admire it, fingers running over tightly-woven spider silk. May would be so pleased to get it back! She'd even found a few nice shiny stones, mostly corals and shards of jade, and even a short string of pearls. The small treasures she'd found were wrapped in a small piece of salvaged cloth, tied as a furoshiki around them. Now that the weather was nice, May wouldn't be half-frozen.

Knuckled rapped gingerly on the door, keeping mind of the freshly-born child inside.

[fivetailedfacades]

Werewolf, witch, mummy.

"Who would I spend my life with?" The fox cocked her head, thinking. The man she called father would be gone soon. Otherwise, she had few attachments, preferring it that way. "This fox does not know, but she knows that the downside to loneliness has been found."

One thing... what one thing would she change? Her mind flitted over many answers, all simplistic and limited. They would not cause the changes she wanted. Perhaps... "I would make men averse to war."

But the sleep? The barklaugh escaped without her permission. "No one... would notice that I had gone. Let alone miss me."

[southerndaiyoukai]

"When is that... spiderling? Egg case? due to arrive?"

[fivetailedfacades]

"Will you tell me a story?"

"Always, for you! Do you know how kitsune came to be named so?"

[fivetailedfacades]

"I am cold. Will you warm me with your tails?"

"Of course! My light and warmth is always here for those in search of it! Burrow in as you please!"

[fivetailedfacades]

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[written on a scorched piece of paper found in the Library of the Temple of the Fox Priestess]

...me that others like us (meaning not of typical origin) are unable to look past our irregularities. She has a kind heart many youkai, and even most humans don't. I regret that this one is becoming a bit too attached to her. I have greatly missed friendship these long years, but of course would be in my nature to find a short-lived youkai to befriend. It is only a matter of time before someone kills her for who she is and I fear that she might find it to be a mercy. This fox must return to the continent, where there is no danger of our bond strengthening. I have seen too many friends with too short lives meet their end, and I cannot be around for another. If only it could be another half-century before I see someone I succumb to loving fall...

[fivetailedfacades]

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"That chess move looks illegal."

Fox won't really admit to any guilty pleasures. Being a kitsune, half of her fun is mischief, and whether or not you can get her to own up to the prank is 50/50. Her favorite form of 'mischief' though, is seducing a wounded human and healing them while they're preoccupied. She's never told anyone she does it.

One thing she really wants to do is to master a weapon. She can hold her own with her shakujo, but relies on her spiritual powers and claws more than she should.

The discrimination she faces for not disguising herself makes her saddest. She almost never makes herself pass for human unless she's hunting humans. If she's passing through a youkai village, she might change out of her miko robes.

Ikebana brings her a particular happiness, and when she settles down she starts tending bonsai. Given her lack of attachments, most of her pleasures are solitary

[southerndaiyoukai]

"I fantasize that my lord will utilize the rings in his quarters to keep me stationary while he reduces me to a point of agony that makes me beg for him."