[ Everybody's feelings include being pissy at Gojyo. This is Gojyo's lot in life.

Banri doesn't need his staff anymore, does he? The spear the other shinki had had is nice and all, but Banri's is a lot sturdier, and looked better weighted. Gojyo picks it up and gives it a test spin -- not bad. Not bad at all. ]

Request denied.

[ I think he looks like a Jeep, don't you? All those months ago, on the BBS, Sha Gojyo, god, had responded to Cho Hakkai, shinki, with a name suggestion for his magical shape-shifting dragon. It's probably somebody's shitty idea of karma that he's on the other end of that conversation now.

So the stick's name is shakujo. Was that intentional blasphemy, or did he steal it from a monk? ...He grimaces at the warning twinge of wrongness, his punishment for thinking about who he might have been, and he pushes the thought aside, giving the staff another twirl. It's heavier on one end, the bark not as smooth as it could be, but it'll do.

Shakujo. He kinda likes the name. ]

It's name is dacho, ostrich, because it's got its head stuck in the sand hiding from the big scary trees.

[ So there. ]