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A bell tolling in the new year, 108 strikes. It's strange to think that sound has led in the new year for as long as I can remember. For a while I wondered if I'd ever hear something like that again. [She's been homesick; it probably shows. She can't quite help it. The feeling is... a little lost, perhaps not unpleasantly so, but strongly

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To you as well.

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I went to the shrine.

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Ah...Was it - worthwhile?

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I would say it was. It was almost a sound I didn't think I'd hear again.

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The bells?

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That's right. It's been a trying year.

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Yes...How many months have you been away from home?

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Most of the year, by now.

I haven't counted the days.

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What was the season when you left?

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Late summer, beginning to cool. The between world brought me into summer again, and this world, too.

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That is...not so bad, then. A long summer.

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Last time, I didn't really feel the heat.

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I suppose not.

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How are you?

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Largely recovered.

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That's fast.