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[It had been like sleeping, but not. Quicker, easier, and softer. Without pain. Thoughts like bubbles to be examined at leisure, and time meant nothing. She had touched it before, but never like that, never like it had been. How long, she would not ask or tell. The Vine was ignored in favour of thought.

It should have kept her. She was an aimless drifter now, one without a city, without a cause, a woman with a heavy arm and a former name. Pathetic, and nothing worthy of being chosen. That solitude, that serenity accepted all, she had a place there. Here, it was attempting to fit an oddly shaped rod into a regular slot. The difference was, could she learn to understand it?

It called for a cigarette and walking, she thought. So Jill grabbed her coat, lit one, and began to take her steps around the Gardens, trying to recall that softness, seeing if it eased anything, or if mental scolding and chiding would do better.]

[[ooc: She can be found anywhere you'd like!]]

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Not seen many earth-crawling humans in this particular place.

[The one who had just spoken up was a woman sitting nearby, in the air, on a floating rock. She had a somewhat bored look on her face as she looked down, but then suddenly a startled expression formed on her face as she spotted the arm.]

Wait, no, you're a youkai, aren't you? Not a very strong one, I bet.

[She looks up at the floating rock woman, taking a long drag before replying.]

Never heard the word "youkai" before. I'm a human, if you count Remades among them. [Which many people didn't. They saw them as less than human, and so she had to make an allowance for them.]

Really? Only a human? [She seemed to be somewhat disappointed.]

Are you sure you aren't a youkai...er...a demon? I mean, you got that arm there.

What's a Remades?

Quite sure. I haven't always had it, and I doubt I'd be this calm about being ripped from my realm if I was a daemon.

[How to succinctly explain...] A Remade is someone who has been altered by thaumaturgy-or "magic", as I've heard it called-either biologically or mechanically for some reason, mainly punishment. The vast majority of regular humans hold bias against them for that reason, and treat them as a separate class of citizens-thus why I label myself as one rather than simply saying human.

Or to place it even more concisely, we've been made different for various reasons.

Huh, those from Gensokyo are pretty calm. Like the spider demoness, she just built her spider web in the forest. Didn't freak out.

I understand. You're magically altered. I don't really see why it's something to complain about, I'm technically magically altered as well, or more spiritually, to be precise, and I don't really see a problem. All it means is that I got to beat up the grim reaper every few decades so I don't die. No problem. People shouldn't complain about it.

Though, I guess they're fine attacking me for it, if they want. Wouldn't mind.

You've got a kinder society than the one I come from. Being altered is a stigma, there. I broke the law, so I gained the arm. Only difference is that I don't let it define me in their way.

Oh, I like people who don't let custom or law define them. I'm a celestial, for example. A tennin. Tennin are holy beings who are expected to pray all day, meditate, and the like. I prefer not to, though. It gets boring.

It really does. I don't know if we've got an equivalent to you in my world, but the principle is the same.

If you don't mind the question, are you a holy being from a certain sect, or does your home have an overlying religion?

Gensokyo has several religions, technically, buddhism and shintoism, which are somewhat connected. But I'm not really from a sect of either of them, I'm basically like those old mountain sages who practice ascetism and eventually, if they manage to not die, become a holy being that way. Except I didn't do all that stuff, it's rather overrated, in my opinion.

I get along well with the main shrine maiden our world, though, she's probably Shintoist. Haven't really met a buddhist specifically, but heard of one.

Could they really avoid death for that long? It sounds fantastical, but then again...I say that when we've all been pulled here.

Regardless, thank you for humouring me. It's interesting to see what exactly others place their faith in, whether it be their own talents or some divine force.

Well, obviously some could, since I've met them, old bores that they are.

You're welcome.

...My second question is going to sound stupid, but the rock flying...that's a kind of magic from you being a holy type, right?

Yes, that's true. My family's in charge of earthquakes, causing them so they don't build up too much, so that's where the kind of power comes from.

So science in one realm is magic in another... [And now she's wondering what exactly in science can be thaumaturgy in the next.]

Why did you say that you were surprised to see humans here? I don't see why they would be warded off, it's rather beautiful here.

Probably. Some even combine science and magic, you'd have to ask the kappa for the details though, it's what they do. ...that said, I don't think there's any kappa here.

Oh, mostly since it's ruins, and a lot of people seemed to be scared that stuff would crawl out from under the ruins to eat them. That's all.

Kappa. I'll remember that in case any going by that title come along here.

[She smiles briefly.] And before long they'll come out from under their ruined home, deprived of brave souls who came to venture near such cursed structures. Rumour can be an amusing thing.

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How about the ruins? If not just pick any unusual place!

Ruins work fine!

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Slightly different set of morals and worries, alas.

Actually she's extremely happy about that

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