[ they carefully lift the next bough carefully out of the way. up ahead, there are larger trees, that seem to grow to a startling height the further in you get. ]
Watch your head here... [ the brush gets a bit dense, but they'll body some of it out of the way with the sort of care that maybe a creature in the woods might give its surroundings. aware not to crush, but to push. ]
[ She slips out a small 'oop' noise, ducking; thankfully, she's on the shorter side, so it isn't terribly difficult to dodge the hanging branches. Many do come fairly low, though, and she certainly isn't coming out of this without pine needles clinging to her hair. ]
Shinto shrines—they're aaall over Japan, dedicated to all sorts of gods and deities out there. There's one close to home that I've visited a lot since I was a kid.
Depends on the shrine! In Shinto, there's all sorts of gods—Of the sun and moon, the sea and wind, rice, wisdom... Not that there's anything stopping you from praying to all of them. I don't usually have a specific one in mind when I go.
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Watch your head here... [ the brush gets a bit dense, but they'll body some of it out of the way with the sort of care that maybe a creature in the woods might give its surroundings. aware not to crush, but to push. ]
What sorts of shrines...?
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Shinto shrines—they're aaall over Japan, dedicated to all sorts of gods and deities out there. There's one close to home that I've visited a lot since I was a kid.
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Gods in particular or sort of the whole gamut? Like you pray to 'em all at once or are they... designated shrines?
[ a slight tilt of the head ]
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