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[There's a new girl in the gardens today.

It's probably easy enough to see that she's new. She's still wearing the white shift she'd awoken in, after all, apparently electing to carry her own clothes in her arms. The only change is that her hair is now tied back with a band that sparkles strangely in the light, and a battered pair of yellow sneakers protect her feet. She has her school uniform bundled under one arm, and with the other, she holds a scroll in front of her face, reading closely and determinedly as she walks through the grass and the flowers without any obvious destination in mind but a clear determination to get there.

But every so often she pauses, looks up, looks around. She sees an orchard with crisp autumn leaves in the ground, and she wants to go and jump in them. She sees a field of glistening snow, and stops herself from going to make snow angels. She comes across a riverbank heavy with the heat of summer, and shakes off the drowsy impulse to take a nap, despite the fact that traveling dimensions is hard on a kid.

And she is just a kid, still just a kid. However, she resists the temptation to play like one and, after one last look of longing towards the beauty around her, instead trudges on, reading as she walks, having no clue where she's going but determined to get there all the same.]

((ooc: Chihiro's most likely to be found not walking at the "season change" areas of the garden, but otherwise, there's a small girl still in her shift and reading her scrolls and heading somewhere. Bother?))

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It's a really little town. They've got one store for clothes and food and books and stuff. Mom usually drives somewhere else to shop. There's only one school, too, so it's all the big kids and the little kids all together.

...I like it, though. There's a lot of forests and hills and shrines and stuff. I spend a lot of time there.

That's real weird. I mean, its cool to have all the kids talking with each other and junk, but you shouldn't have just one clothing shop! That's crazy weird!

Forest, hills and shrines sound cool though. What do you do in shrines though?

Clean them out, leave the offerings, wash the statues. Just make sure it all looks nice and everything's where it's supposed to be.

[Chihiro spends a lot of time doing this. It's made her fairly popular in class, because it's not something anyone else wants to waste an afternoon doing.]

And that's fun?

Sure it is.

[Maybe not "rollercoaster" type fun, but Chihiro's never thought of it as anything else. Or she hasn't, since arriving in the little village.]

Besides, someone has to keep it all clean. Sometimes even the grown-ups don't.

Oh, so you have grown ups in your world! I kinda do too, but they don't really look like me.

Guess you're gonna need to find something new to do, huh?