>Once our doppelganger is ready, let's move out to where we said we were going to meet up with the others.
>Your counterpart appears to have tidied herself up while you were sleeping it off, so you find yourself ready to depart for the Moriya temple in short order.
>Your passage out of Tengu territory is mostly uneventful, interrupted only once by a Dai-tengu who flies up from the ground, speaks with your counterpart about some processing and production matters pertaining to her paper, then departs again. Evidently the taller Tengu works for Hatatwin in her paper, which takes you a little aback. Even knowing all that you know about this world, seeing a Dai-tengu employed by a Crow Tengu is very jarring. Once again, your doppelganger assures you that you'll get used to it in time. You simply hope you won't have to be around long enough to have to be.
>The landscape beyond the Tengu borders appears largely unchanged from your world, and you and Hatatwin spend the trip engaged in a little good-natured fencing as to which one of you had run the best story in your time. This proves to be a little one-sided, as you and she have by and large the same resume, having shared experiences up until the Night of Rage. So your jousting quickly becomes reminiscing about some of the better stories you've run. By mutual unspoken agreement, neither one of you mention the fact that Aya had beaten you to the punch on every one of those.
>She does make a bit of a detour though instead of heading directly to the Moriya temple, citing something about a turf dispute between Kanako and one of the local gods, some kind of territorial thunder goddess with a bad attitude. Incidents are not common, but since you have somewhere to be, both of you decide not to risk a potentially lengthy delay, especially if there's no story to be gained by it.
>Your new course takes you close to that human village called Windia near the temple you've heard talk of today. It doesn't appear to be as large as the human village down below, but it seems to be large enough to support a couple hundred humans at least. There's only two roads leading two and from town, such as they are, a feet-beaten path leading up from the lower parts of the mountain, and another one heading towards the temple itself. Right now, only one of them is occupied, by a somewhat short feline youkai beating a hasty retreat from town, carrying a thick sack slung on her shoulders and a couple of pieces of jewelry in her teeth. A quartet of humans is trying to give chase to the cat, accompanied by a woman clad in pink and white clothing flying overhead.
>"Ah, bollocks." Hatatwin sighs as she observes this. "You'd best go on to the temple ahead of me, sis. I gotta deal with this."
