A prayer for business!

[welcome_home]

Who: Nanako, Sumio, Souji, Homura
What: Tiny's First Prayer Adventure!
When: June 23
Where: The Near Shore


A prayer for business:
No one's stopped by my store in weeks! If I don't get more customers soon, I'm going to have to close down.

[ While she might not have discovered her god powers yet, Nanako has at least spent a lot of time practicing her teleportation skills of late while exploring her way around the Far Shore. Coming to the place where all the mortals were still alive and busy was another thing, however, and somewhere she was still too nervous to venture to on her own. Especially considering the events that had occurred just after her arrival here. So when she received a Prayer that required her presence here, she'd turned to her big brother for help.

Which was how she ended up on a quiet sidewalk, gripping Souji's hand tightly and flanked by both Sumio and Homura. The place where they were to answer the Prayer was a small Pet Shop that looked like it had seen some better days, but was still brightly and colorfully decorated to draw the eye of passing shoppers. The display window held three puppies who rolled around and played while a fourth napped in the sun, and in the shop behind them could be seen a myriad of other animals all waiting to be taken home by someone. An older man in an apron - the owner, by all appearances - was tending to an aquarium, cleaning it and tending to the brightly colored fish within.

Nanako took it all in with wide eyes, looking both delighted and uncertain, before glancing up at her big brother. ]

Do you think this is the right place?

Comments

[timeshields]

[Nanako looks at ease like this, but Homura, who's been put into bunny ears, looks a bit sour. Most of her fliers get unceremoniously shoved into passerby's hands.

This... isn't her usual thing and she's out of her element.]

... How are you doing?

[welcome_home]

This is fun!

[ Unlike poor Homura, Nanako at least seems to have embraced the task set before her with her typical enthusiasm. ]

I thought answering prayers would be harder than this.

[timeshields]

You seem suited to this type of prayer.

[Unlike Homura... Whoops.]

[welcome_home]

[ Nanako giggles. ] Did Souji-oniichan ever tell you how he dressed up as a bear once to help people at a festival? He looked kinda funny. But this is fun! And you look really cute as a bunny, Homura!

[timeshields]

I don't make a good bunny.

He does this kind of thing often?

[welcome_home]

[ Nanako does not look convinced. ] I think you do. But maybe you could wiggle your nose more.

Mmm. No, not often. But he was trying to cheer someone up, I think.

[timeshields]

I'm not going to do that. [Not even for somebody she likes.]

... By dressing up like a bear?

[welcome_home]

What about your tail? You could wiggle that instead?

[ Not that she really expects Homura to do anything of the sort, but she's in high spirits and feeling playful. ]

Yeah, I think so! You'd have to ask him, though. It was a super secret mission.

[timeshields]

I can't do that either.

[She refuses.]

A super secret mission... to wear a bear costume...?

[welcome_home]

[ Nanako gives her a Very Serous Look. ] Is your wiggle broken?

Yup! Well. To help someone. The bear costume just... helped, I guess?

[timeshields]

[Blunty.] Yes.

... I'll have to ask him.

[welcome_home]

[ Nanako heaves a very disappointed sigh. ] That's a shame. It'd probably be really useful today, too.

You should! [ He might even answer! Although maybe not... ]

[timeshields]

Souji can wiggle enough for two of us.

[welcome_home]

[ Nanako blinks for a moment before abruptly doubling over in a fit of giggles. ]

You're right, I bet he'd be really good at wiggling if we asked him to.

[timeshields]

[Her gaze settles on Souji.]

Should we ask now?

[welcome_home]

[ Nanako nods excitedly. ] Yeah! Let's go ask him!

[socials]

[ Souji's little sister senses tingle, to be honest, from where he's handing out flyers. He can see the two of them talking to each other, and Nanako is looking excited while Homura looks at him, so.

He'll come over to see what's up. ]

Ask what?

[timeshields]

If you could wiggle for two people.

#no context theater for Souji. Sorry big bro.

[welcome_home]

[ Nanako leans forward as she peers up at him curiously. ]

Can you?

[socials]

[socials]

[ Rather than asking them what they mean, Souji instead opts to...

Well, wiggle. Briefly, mind you, but enough to draw some attention to them to anyone that's already been paying attention to the gods and shinki gathered at the shop. ]

[timeshields]

I knew he could wiggle.

[welcome_home]

[ Nanako's too busy giggling to agree with her.

Then she reaches up to tug on Souji's sleeve, leaning up on tiptoes to confide a great secret. ]

I think Homura's wiggle is broken.

[ As far as whispers go, she doesn't even try to keep it too quiet for the girl at her side to overhear. ]

[socials]

[ Souji leans down when Nanako tugs on his sleeve, listening indulgently to her stage whisper and looking at Homura as he does.

But then he cups his hand, turning more properly to Nanako, and answers in a similar "whisper." ]

It's not broken, Nanako. Some people don't have much of a wiggle, or one at all, and that's okay.

[timeshields]

[She can hear you both. You aren't that far away from her.

She looks as neutral as ever.]