11th book; another three years older {video/action for saffron}

[bamfsecretary]

What has it been, a year and... eight months? Well, seven. And yet I have aged three years in that time. {A sigh.} It’s good to know that this place makes as little sense as ever.

. . .

Tell me Johto, Kanto, have you ever heard the Legend of Tanabata? It is an old tale, and like all good stories, contains both love and heartbreak. It seems to be a particularly favoured theme, to be quite honest, as it pops up again and again throughout the myths and legends of all cultures. {She smiles, and she looks at peace, contented.} It’s my birthday today – well, not just mine. Crow Hogan, I hope you have a wonderful day, and that you enjoy your presents.

One hundred and forty years... It sounds impossibly old, doesn’t it? Ah, but I am so young compared to some of my colleagues back home. Happy Tanabata, everyone.

{She can be found wandering around Saffron today, just chilling and enjoying the lovely weather.}

Comments

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[bamfsecretary]

Most people don't believe in them any more - well, the living ones don't. Those who are dead, well. We're living it.

{One day!!!}

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[dreamsofahero]

Ah, that's an interesting way to put it...

But even so, having heard stories like that, is it really so hard to imagine?

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[bamfsecretary]

For the living, it's a shock. They think the afterlife is a wonderful, delicate place where everything is rainbows and butterflies and sunshine. It's pretty much the opposite.

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[dreamsofahero]

Do people really think of it like that....?

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[bamfsecretary]

Unfortunately, yes. Every major religion believes that it's lovely and peaceable after death, which poses more than a few problems.

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[dreamsofahero]

Well, I know some people believe in various sorts of pleasant afterlifes, but the way you described it...

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[bamfsecretary]

Precisely. {She sighs.} A pity they never learn.

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[dreamsofahero]

Although, at least I imagine there could be worse things than yours, so from that perspective...

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[bamfsecretary]

We've taken to calling it the "there's always a bigger fish" point of view.

{Star Wars was a massive hit in Seireitei, okay.}

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[dreamsofahero]

Ah, that's an interesting way to put it.

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[bamfsecretary]

It works.

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[dreamsofahero]

Though, are all those things simply a natural part of your world, or specifically made to be that way somehow?

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[bamfsecretary]

They have always been there - and I doubt they were engineered to be that way.

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[dreamsofahero]

Oh? A natural occurrence, then?

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[bamfsecretary]

As far as I know, yes.

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[dreamsofahero]

Interesting.