[ Open ] With new power comes...

[welcome_home]

Who: Nanako and anyone inclined to be out exploring or who might notice a new mountain looming in the Far Shore.
When: July 12
Where: Nanshe's newly-discovered Temple
What: Nanako has discovered she has god powers after all! Now it's led her to finally discovering she has a temple here and it gives her the perfect place to try out some of the new things she can do.


A; To Find Shelter

[ It's been a little over a week since Nanako had discovered that she did indeed have a god power of her very own. Even if it had taken her awhile to get the hang of it. It was still taking her a while to get the hang of it, but today she's taken a break from practicing in the backyard of Souji's temple to go investigate something for herself.

Because she's felt a pull that's been growing stronger over the past few days, insistent and niggling and new. Since it hadn't faded or gone away, she'd decided this morning to follow it and see what she found.

Which is how she ends up at the base of a mountain not that long a walk away from Souji's temple. A mountain which she's very sure she's never seen before. She thinks? But there's a walled gate around its base that feels vaguely familiar to her, even if she doesn't know why. The gate stands wide open and welcoming, however, so she proceeds inside, heading up a long stone staircase to the shrine she finds at the top, brightly colored with banners waving and surrounded by a hillside full of blooming azalea bushes. The shrine itself is set beside a huge lake full of fat and lazy fish swimming within its depths.

And the more she explores of this place, the more certain she is - she's finally found Nanshe's temple. Her temple. Delighted, she starts poking into every inch of the shrine she can find, exploring all over it and seeing everything hidden within this new place. Eventually, she'll go looking for her brother and Homura, wanting to share with them her newest discovery, but if anyone else happens by in the meantime, she might excitedly show them around as well. ]

B; To Rise

[ The discovery of her very own temple means one thing for certain - it's given her a wide open space to keep practicing her new abilities. And since she now knows how to look for that tiny flicker of power that seems to blossom brighter each time she uses it, it's easy to flit back and forth between normal and the form her god power seems to give her - that of a halo and tiny wings and a bright cheerful glow that surrounds her every time it manifests.

She hasn't figured out yet if her power will allow her to fight evil spirits any better - especially when she doesn't know how to fight in the first place. But there are other uses to this power she's learning about. Like the fact that the tiny feathered wings on her back actually work, and as long as she can keep her focus steady, she can even manage to float for increasingly longer periods of time.

So of course this is what she's practicing, once she finds her own private mountaintop filled with colorful flowers, trees, and banners. Although it's with dubious success at first, she's determined to get better at it.

So, throughout various points of the day - and possibly the next few days - there's a tiny girl with angel wings floating, bobbing, and sometimes zooming around her shrine and occasionally even venturing outside her temple to see how far she can fly and how long she can manage it. Sorry, friends, her control isn't all that great yet... ]

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[fortune_detective]

[Naoto considers this for a moment. After a pause, Naoto steps back, pulling her hand away from the halo. Her hand now slowly reaches up and takes off her hat. She looks at it for a moment, and then offers it to Nanako as her face turns a soft shade of pink.]

You can try putting my hat on underneath it if you'd like, Nanako-chan?

[welcome_home]

[ Nanako's eyes go wide as she looks from Naoto to her hat and then back again. ]

Really? Can I?

[fortune_detective]

[Naoto's normally rather reluctant to ever be without her hat... but in this case, she's willing to make an exception. The look on Nanako's face certainly further encouraging her to let the little girl try it on. Naoto smiles back, more easily this time and with less of an embarrassed shading of pink coloring her expression.]

Of course. It might be a little too big on you, but you are more than welcome to try it on.

[welcome_home]

I wanna try! [ Nanako looks delighted at the possibility. Carefully, she reaches out for the hat before peering up at her halo again. ] Can you help?

[fortune_detective]

[Ah, and this was the part Naoto was worried about. If Nanako herself was unsure of if she'd be able to put it on under her halo... well, between the two of them, they can probably figure this out, right? Maybe?]

Oh, sure.

[Naoto eyes her hat then the halo for a moment.]

Um, do you think you can lift it up slightly? Or is it... stuck?