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Who: Nanako and anyone!
When: Mid-August
Where: All over the Far Shore and wherever she can find other gods and shinki.
What: Nanako is on A Mission.

A: Photographs and Memories

[ After talking with Izumo a few days before about his plan to make a wall of memories in his bar of all the gods and shinki who have come and gone, so they'd be remembered, Nanako can be found wandering through the Far Shore and near the temples she comes across, borrowed camera in hand. While she's quicker to approach people she knows with her request, she will often wander up to strangers as well, trying to hide her shyness and nerves behind a hopeful smile. ]

B: Practice Makes Perfect

[ Nanako has been very determined of late to get better at her abilities, whatever they may be. So it's not unusual to find her practicing at her temple, or perhaps out somewhere on the Far Shore for a change of scenery. There might be a tiny girl wielding a bow and arrow, taking careful aim at her target as she practices again and again on improving her aim.

Or perhaps it's the light show that's drawn you in, a tiny hovering angel surrounded by a warm glow and occasionally trying to figure out how to direct that light where she wants it to go - with varying degrees of questionable success, though she remains looking determined, even when she fails. ]

C: Safe and Sound

[ Nanako is crouched beside her shrine, peering underneath the planks of wood that make the walk that surrounds it, looking distressed. And apparently pleading with someone - something? - hidden in the deep shadows underneath. ]

[ Or perhaps you've stopped by on a sunny afternoon to find her sprawled on her stomach on the dock that stretches out over the lake, bowl of crumbled bread crusts beside her as she feeds the fat lazy fish circling beneath her. Watch out for the pelicans, though. They sometimes like to swoop at unexpected visitors. ]

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That's amazing!

[Out of sheer curiosity, he still nods.]

Do it to me first, then let me see it.

Okay! Just stand there and... hmm. Smile for me?

[ She holds up the camera to aim the shot, waiting until she has a good angle and he looks like he's ready before snapping the photo and then bringing the camera over so he can see the evidence for himself. ]

Here, see? What do you think? It didn't hurt at all, right?

[One bright smile for the nice girl coming right up. He can do that much.]

[Then he comes over to look at the picture.]

Wow... just like that. So easy.

[Obviously, if Nanako can do it. She's a bright child, but still a child.]

No, it didn't hurt at all. And it looks just like me - not like if someone painted it. That's how I look in a mirror.

[He says it all with an air of surprise at how exact the likeness is, mixed with genuine surprise it was done so quickly with that kind of accuracy.]

[ She beams up at him happily, pleased with how excited he seemed by it. ]

Would you like to try? I can show you how.

Ah! So I can take a picture of you? Yes, I'd like that.

[ Yep he perks right up at that, not minding that Nanako is younger to show him something like this. One less piece of tech for him to be confused about. ]

[ She beams and holds out the camera to him, showing him how to hold it as he does so. ]

Here, you want to put your hands here, like this. This is the button you want to push when you're ready to take the picture. But you have to be careful your finger isn't in front of this part, otherwise you will just take a picture of your finger. [ Guess who's done that already. ] Whatever this glass here is looking at is what it will take a picture of. And if you're not sure what it will look like, this little screen here will show you before you push the button - and then the finished picture after you have.

[ Yoon manages to mimic her actions once in a practice motion before standing back and aiming the phone at Nanako. Okay, he can do this. He pauses, unsure what to say, but waits for her to shift into a pose before remembering her words and repeating them very formally. ]

Hello, can I take your picture?

[ There, now he can see if this works properly. ]

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