[video/written]

[windofchange]

[video]

[the video feed comes in dim and flickering, like the camera is snapping on and off or being covered by someone... turning... pages? The sound of rustling paper certainly indicates the latter.

There are glimpses of an elaborate ceiling high above in the gloom, domed and painted bright colours, perhaps a palace or a temple. Closer to the 'camera' is the face of a young woman with grey eyes and long ash brown hair, tied back in a ponytail. It definitely isn't Takiko, but the post seems to be coming from Takiko's journal...?

The young woman is frowning, her expression becoming more and more suspicious as she continues to flip through pages. She doesn't seem to care that the front of her sleeping robe is gaping open, revealing boobs and a heavy swath of bandages running diagonally across her chest and a — mark? tattoo? — of the Japanese symbol for 'woman', 女, just below her collarbone. Enjoy the show, ducks.

She's downright scowling by the time she reaches the end of the entries, muttering a quick curse and an 'Idiot girl' as she looks away and slams the book closed]

[handwritten]

Oi, where is all of this coming from? Just who are you, and what are you saying to Takiko?

[the entry comes only minutes after the video feed, and handwriting is rough and angular, not at all like Takiko's usual elegant hand]

Comments

[windofchange]

Wh— that's not the point! Besides, they're probably from Genbu!

For all you know there could be spies on that thing! And you're just going around using our names and talking to whoever you feel like!

[lifeisbrief]

I knew people on the community for months before I became the priestess. The only spy is you!

[windofchange]

That's even more suspicious!

[lifeisbrief]

How could that be more suspicious! I didn't know I was going to become the priestess, and I'm sure-

[father didn't know. But is that true? Father had tried to keep her away from the book. But he had never wanted her. What if...no, it didn't make sense. It didn't.]

I'm sure father had no idea either. [The determination is gone from her voice, though.]

[windofchange]

Something did! Why else would something like that show up in your world?!

[lifeisbrief]

I don't know! It shows up in all sorts of places for all sorts of people!

[windofchange]

[ugh, more weird strangers from other worlds in an already complicated situation... but on the other hand, magic]

I'm showing it to the oracle when we get to Turning Point Rock Field. If she says it's no good, we burn it.

[lifeisbrief]

[Takiko bites her lip. She has friends on the community. Giving that up...

But Uruki does have a point. And even if the community is exactly what she thinks it is, it can't hurt to have the Oracle confirm it.]

...Alright.

[windofchange]

[...relaxes]

Jeez, the stuff you get into...

[lifeisbrief]

It's not just me.

[windofchange]

It's definitely you. I'd almost think you enjoy it.

[it's. it's hard to tell if he's teasing or not]

[lifeisbrief]

If anyone does, I think it would be you.

[You're the one who keeps coming back after running off.]