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Who: Hazel and u
What: small priest is heckled by trees and literature
When: May 21~23 or so, flexible
Where: Far Shore places
Warnings: hazel and jae-ha have an active sex life
Summary: heckle

I. spooky trees
[It is what it sounds like: somewhere on the Far Shore, anywhere on the Far Shore, where Hazel is and where you, the witness, also happen to be, Hazel is making his way ~~downtown~~ around minding his own business like a man being followed. Or: he keeps looking over his shoulder, or stopping abruptly to look suddenly off to one side, or do all manner of things that look very much like he's trying to catch someone sneaking up on him.

But there isn't anyone there, because of course there isn't. Eventually, exasperated, he just comes to a natural stop and announces to the air:] Even the dang trees're nosy.

[have you ever been stalked by a spooky forest]

II. what kind of dewey decimal is this
[There's a library and new gods are being invited to come. That's enough for Hazel to finally nose around in there, after staying very much away from anything involving being within spitting distance of the old gods before now. He's a sight to behold when any individual old god passes by and expects a greeting, all manners and flattery and unpleasant looks the moment their backs are turned. He'd give them a rude gesture for the road, but that's far too improper for him.

But when he's not making childish faces at other gods' backs, he's trying to find... anything at all worthwhile in this place. There's nothing in order. It's a wreck. He can't find a single thing, and for all his practicing there are still plenty of kanji he's never seen before, so the older books in particular are brutal...

He pauses, picks a book up off a shelf, and frowns at it.] I can't even remember lookin' for this, it was so long ago.

[He has been here for Hours.]

III. wildcard
[hello what would you like to do? please ask and I can deliver]

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[Not too long ago, Hazel proposed Jae-Ha pick his own birthday purely so they can celebrate it. This was a great idea and everyone was pleased, and because they're insatiable losers, they sat down with their very domestic calendar and picked a date in the same month. There's really no point in waiting for what is, literally, just an excuse to buy Jae-Ha gifts and have a little celebration between them. Jae-Ha already insisted on saying he's turning 25 again, so really, this is nonsense...

But Hazel is excited about this nonsense and he's going to buy Jae-Ha lots of cheesy trinkets that are too embarrassing to wear in public. He's a great boyfriend and Jae-Ha will doubtless appreciate him sooo much.

Soooo much.

So wherever Jae-Ha has decided to stop and relax in the house today, he will soon be joined by Hazel's arms wrapping around him from behind

to blindly attach yet another embarrassment token to the front of his shirt. HELLO.]

Hazel--! Look out!

[ A book! At YOU!

It flies from her hand, through the air, and promptly smacks the wall right next to his face, sending dust up into the air.

Honestly, she thought she saw a spider or something. ]

[Looking around suspiciously as if someone is following him? There can only be one explanation for that. Elise creeps up behind him.]

Can I play too?

[She loves hide and seek.]

[It's possible that this is the worst organized library ever. Hakkai's certain some of the books are moving on their own, too, unless he's being mysteriously shadowed by someone else who also wanted to investigate a stack of hundred-year-old records of heaven's yearly administrative decrees: it had been a potentially very interesting stack, he'd put it on this shelf, and now this shelf is filled with trashy mystery novels and notably lacking in old, dry administrative records.

He pulls one book out, staring blankly at the dramatically bloodstained shower stall emblazoned on the cover, sighs, and puts it back, tapping one claw against the edge of the shelf.

The expostulation from the slightly luckier patron next to him catches his attention, and he glances up.]

Oh, you found the book you were looking for? Don't put it back down.

[Sakon generally has a lot of free time, but he doesn't often spend it on the Far Shore...usually because things like this keep happening. He saw a path he'd never taken, started walking and now he's...somewhere. At least on the Near Shore, there were usually people to ask for directions or a chance that if he pushes enough buttons on the phone, it will tell him where he is. Here...

Here not so much.

It's pure dumb luck that he happens to find someone ahead on the path. But he's not quite sure how lucky because this guy seems...um...

Is he afraid of trees???]

Uh...is something...

[Wrong? Bothering him? WHAT DO YOU EVEN ASK SOMEONE WHO'S AFRAID OF TREES???]

( It's not that Urashima is particularly interested in libraries or anything like that but it's a new place and he's a curious spirit so of course he's going to check it out. He's flipping through an old book that was just lying around, eyes glazing at the pages and pages of kanji. It's not that he can't read it but it isn't particularly fun to read.

And then he sees Hazel, making some sort of face at someone behind their back. At first, Urashima doesn't say anything at all... but then it happens again and he sort of just leans over the shelf, head resting on crossed arms, tilting curiously to one side, )

That isn't very nice.

[ There's a forest following him.

This really shouldn't be possible, and yet. He's willing to swear (loudly and prolifically) that the forest right there, off to the east? That forest wasn't there a minute ago. That was a hill, a minute ago. And back the way he came, where that picturesque little creek is? He didn't cross that creek. It was a forest when he was there, and he skirted faaar around the damn thing. There's something not right about that little grove of dark trees, and he's in no rush to find out what that wrongness entails.

(Other than the forest, though... why is everything here so damn picturesque? It's like living in a post card.)

It's really starting to freak him out, not gonna lie. In fact, he's just about ready to give up on his errand and teleport home, never mind that it feels like fleeing with his tail between his legs, when he hears a voice from the other side of the hill. The hill that was just a forest. What the fuck. ]

Oi! You're seein' this too?

[ He's not crossing over that hill though, no sir. That hill is now unnatural: it might turn into a forest at any minute. Can't even trust the landscape around here, swear to god. ]

The fuck is going on?

[She's quite certain that forest wasn't there before. She's really, really sure about that. Almost sure? Because Amane walk along here before, and now it feels like something is different.

Or maybe she's just mistaken.

Overhearing Hazel's words, Amane pause and looks over at him.]

The trees?

[Maybe it's just... windy?]

[Here she was, thinking of running off to help with the cleaning of the school temple (as she likes to call it) and...that is...okay. Ooookay. She stares, not so much at Hazel, but at the trees behind him. Those are kinda...

Yeah, that's freaky.]

I think you have a fan club.

[She put her things down, and trotted over, peering around Hazel and...yup.

It's still there. Just. Hanging out. Being tree like.]

Do you usually have a forest following you, or is this new?

Oh good, I thought it was just me.

[Schuldig calls out from several feet away, not having been actually stalking Hazel on purpose. He just got caught up in the forest when it found Hazel and now he's trying to get out. He does know from Jae-Ha's memories who this is, but he doesn't have an opinion one way or the other about the man. Wrong place wrong time, that's all he's got today.]

I can't seem to get out of this forest - I just keep walking along the edge of it, it seems.

[Kairi's been there a little while herself, but that's because she happened to run into Ouka, who'd accidentally caused a huge mess. So now Kairi's finally back to looking for her own bits of interest. Still, overhearing someone else's frustration makes her curious since there doesn't seem to be a librarian anywhere nearby.

She approaches the man quietly, knowing that she's new and a shinki so she has very little to go on except for a desire to be helpful.]

Uhm, excuse me -- is there something you need a second pair of eyes to help you find?

[And here's Killua, just chilling in one of the trees casually.]

Maybe it's not the trees at all.

[Oh sorry, he may have been following Hazel for a little bit. Because hey, it's something to do.]

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this embarrassing one is for jae-ha