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[godsoffortune]

Who: Everyone!
What: Tanabata Festival
When: All day July 5
Where: The Near Shore
Summary: The Heavens are throwing a party and you're invited!

Continuing from HERE!

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Re: Celty

[lookingforhead]

No not yet. I'm still looking for them

A borderline? I'll be sure to ask. Thank you.

[returnedfromtheline]

No problem.
And yah, you can ask me, or any of the other shinki who have been around for a bit. Anyone who can explain it can teach you how to do it.
But you should just get a bit settled first.

[lookingforhead]

I appreciate it. Everyone has been really nice and helpful. I wish I had something more to go on but at least I'm not just stuck on my own.

Um

If I can't find my god then is there a place I can spend the night?

[It'll wind up being a moot point, but it's still relevant.]

[returnedfromtheline]

Uh, good question. Your god better find you before then. But if you’re in a pinch… I’d recommend messaging Sora. Um, his god name's Baldr.
He’s super-friendly and probably wouldn’t mind putting you up for a night, or if he can’t he’d for sure find someone who can.

[lookingforhead]

[Celty nods and notes those names down in her phone, just in case.]

Thank you. I guess I better have another look around and hope I find who I'm looking for then.

I'm Celty, by the way.

[She doesn't immediately go running off. It's early enough yet that she's in no rush, and she honestly wouldn't mind someone more familiar with this place going with her. She just doesn't want to ask because she doesn't have a clear path in mind to search.]

[returnedfromtheline]

Right.

[He's pretty sure they've already done this, but they'd both been pretty flustered at the time.]

Yukine. [He gestures slightly towards his left collarbone, where the red kanji for his name is only partly hidden by his dark blue yukata.] I’m a shinki, but not one of the new ones. So if you have any questions, I’ll help you out.

But for now, maybe just try standing somewhere where your god will wander across you? If both of you are moving around, you really won't see each other.

[lookingforhead]

I've been doing that. But then sometimes I worry I'm waiting in a bad spot, so then it's a question of if I should stay put or try moving somewhere else? Or what if they're waiting somewhere and looking at the passing crowd trying to find me?

[She does take note of his name on his neck like that though.]

Is that how your god knows to find you? Would I have something like that on me somewhere?

[returnedfromtheline]

[Haha- she’s kind of an easily flustered person, huh.]

Gods are good at finding their own shinki. It’s a god thing. Staying put will work.

As for your name, yes, you’ll have a name on you. It’s our god-given name that really makes us shinki, instead of just wandering spirits. And like I said, a god can find their shinki.
Oh, and ‘shinki’ means a god’s divine instrument. [He reaches up to rub at the back of his head for a moment, thinking.] Your god should be able to explain some of this stuff to you, and I don’t want to overload you in one go, but I’ll keep talking about it if you want me to.

[On top of just wanting to be helpful, it’s kind of his job after all.]

[lookingforhead]

I'm honestly a little overwhelmed as it is.
This does help though. Better to know something than nothing.

[She pauses a moment, letting things settle as she tries to think if there's anything she really does want to know.]

I guess right now I want to know why me? Why this? Is there some reason I'm like this now? Not the dead part. The Shinki part. What makes us so special?

[Besides the obvious, anyway. But hers is a forward looking why.]

[returnedfromtheline]

[Yukine looks a little surprised at the question, and gives it some serious thought for a moment before saying his least favourite words:]

I don't know. I don't really know how regular shinki get chosen, let alone you new guys, showing up in such a weird way.

You could try asking Bishamonten-sama later though. She's one of the old gods.

[And it's food for thought for him, too. Yato seems to be proud of having chosen him, but how did he choose Yukine in the first place?]

[lookingforhead]

I see. I'll try asking her if I meet her.

[A major god is a woman? That's an encouraging thought.]

I think I'll walk around a bit more, and hopefully I'll find my god soon. Thank you for your time.

[returnedfromtheline]

[He comes out of his introspective thoughts for a moment to smile a little at her message of thanks.]

Sure. If you get more questions later the people around you should be able to help, but you can message me, too.
Uh, good luck with everything.

[That whole encounter definitely ranked high on the ‘new guys are weird’ scale… but despite the missing-head thing, she seems nice enough?]