Fourteenth Choice - [Voice/Action]

[spiritarrows]

I will be making chōchin for the Tōrō nagashi on Obon. Does anyone else want one?

[Regardless of whether there would be a proper festival of course. And Doumeki can be found in the barracks today, practicing his archery. But anyone that has seen him practice before his death will notice that most of the arrows are off their mark when Doumeki's

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[pathtoseele]

What's that?

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[spiritarrows]

Hm? [It's a 'which one do you mean' sound.]

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[pathtoseele]

Any of it. Chochin? Toro nagashi? Obon? I've never heard any of those before.

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[spiritarrows]

Obon is a Japanese Buddhist custom to honor the spirits of the deceased, particularly those of family members and ancestors. People generally return to ancestral family places and gather with their family to visit and clean ancestral graves. Spirits of the deceased are also believed to return to the world of the living during Obon.

Tōrō nagashi is the custom of lighting chōchin, which are Japanese paper lanterns, and floating them down rivers. It's supposed to symbolise the return of spirits to their world.

[You know what? This is probably the most he's spoken in one go.]

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[pathtoseele]

[ Teito appreciates being blessed with Doumeki's vocalization then. :> ]

That actually kind of sounds nice. Too bad things like that don't really happen.

[ and now he sort of wants to make one. 8| or figure out how. ]

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[spiritarrows]

It does.

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[pathtoseele]

When is it?

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[spiritarrows]

It depends. The time it starts varies with the regions. Where I lived it starts on the 15th of July, but it could also start on the 15th of August or on the 15th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, and so differs each year.

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[pathtoseele]

That's... Really kind of confusing.

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[spiritarrows]

I suppose the time it would start here would depend on when the majority of Japanese here are used to having it.

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[pathtoseele]

So there's probably a lot of Japanese here?

[ no idea what Japanese are. 8| ]

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[spiritarrows]

Quite a few. We don't all come from the same world... more like alternate versions of it.

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[pathtoseele]

Alternate versions... So some things probably stay the same.

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[spiritarrows]

The basic culture, mostly. [Or so he's seen.]

Do you want one?

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[pathtoseele]

A-ah!

[ little fluster! alarmed to hear the question! ]

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[pathtoseele]

[ quiet moment. working up courage. ]