[open] jannat al-ma'wa
Who: lumenrelegandus and multiple/open (see below)
When: Backdated to before the Shadows manifest
Where: Naruto's dojo
Format: Have some Choose Your Own Adventure! Then prolly switch to action/prose. ;)
What: Thanks to sudden popular demand, Lupin's going to start holding tutoring sessions in General/Scorched Studies. Thanks to Sakura, they'll be at the dojo.
• Scheduled: queens_guarddog, demon_andbutler, charmprince, femininehermes.
• Unscheduled: whoever wants! (Sakura? Naruto? Senji? Dawn? River? Bueller?)
Warnings: Another bloody multiple thread post! Why're you always so busy, Loop...?
My sources for dojo terminology-but I probably mangled them; please correct me!
You enter the genkan to take off your shoes. The sliding panels to the tatami are closed. Someone seems to be shining a torch or carrying a candle: through the tiny cracks there's a moving glow.
You slide the panel open and are engulfed in fire.
It's silver-white-blue, blinding, and rapturous.
Before you can think to run or fight, the heatless light continues on past you; a creature circling the room. Rather than alarmed, you're more likely to feel refreshed, even optimistic.
A figure of a man becomes visible seated in the shimoseki. The moment the panel opened, the light began to dwindle away. It now seems to retract into him-into his hands, or something he's holding. Which, before your eyes can readjust to the dim and more colourful ambient light, he's tucked away inside his jacket.
Standing like a heron, (likably hunched,) he limpshuffles toward the kamiza to welcome you properly.
notes:
When: Backdated to before the Shadows manifest
Where: Naruto's dojo
Format: Have some Choose Your Own Adventure! Then prolly switch to action/prose. ;)
What: Thanks to sudden popular demand, Lupin's going to start holding tutoring sessions in General/Scorched Studies. Thanks to Sakura, they'll be at the dojo.
• Scheduled: queens_guarddog, demon_andbutler, charmprince, femininehermes.
• Unscheduled: whoever wants! (Sakura? Naruto? Senji? Dawn? River? Bueller?)
Warnings: Another bloody multiple thread post! Why're you always so busy, Loop...?
My sources for dojo terminology-but I probably mangled them; please correct me!
You enter the genkan to take off your shoes. The sliding panels to the tatami are closed. Someone seems to be shining a torch or carrying a candle: through the tiny cracks there's a moving glow.
You slide the panel open and are engulfed in fire.
It's silver-white-blue, blinding, and rapturous.
Before you can think to run or fight, the heatless light continues on past you; a creature circling the room. Rather than alarmed, you're more likely to feel refreshed, even optimistic.
A figure of a man becomes visible seated in the shimoseki. The moment the panel opened, the light began to dwindle away. It now seems to retract into him-into his hands, or something he's holding. Which, before your eyes can readjust to the dim and more colourful ambient light, he's tucked away inside his jacket.
Standing like a heron, (likably hunched,) he limpshuffles toward the kamiza to welcome you properly.
notes:
- Hermione could recognize the Patronus Charm. (To cleanse the space/himself between meetings.) Lacking Dementors to necessitate weaponizing, it always struck me as a meditative spell.
- Jannat al-ma'wa - "garden of sanctuary" (Qu'ran) (in lieu of something more specifically Sufist. Rumí fans, help?)