>Nibble on tater.
>"Go on. What's the deal with the moon, anyways? I heard about lasers and stuff from my associate here."
> You continue to eat. The warmth of the sweet potato makes you forget the cold.
> The woman lets out a wry laugh, and waves her hand above the fire. The flames seem to follow it.
> "It was a few months ago, probably before autumn. We were all working hard on this year's harvest. Everything was going so well, until the night of the full moon. The sun set, but then everything clouded over and that thing--" she gestures dismissively at Hell's Moon, "--appeared instead. Everyone panicked. A few hours later some chick with a red spike in her forehead showed up. Dunno why, but she wanted to know where the Hakurei Shrine was. Haven't seen her since, no idea where she is."
> "And then as soon as the sky was completely dark, everything went to hell. Ice fairy's right about the lazers; they tore up the place real bad. That danmaku wasn't the harmless spell card rules kind."
> "Of course we all fought back. The red-white and black-white were at the front lines. So, when those guys got blasted back, nobody held back. Meanwhile, Keine had to fight, so she couldn't hide the village in her mouth. A lot of people died." The woman looks a bit uncomfortable saying the last two sentences.
> "The temple that was established here recently survived by some miracle. The Bamboo Forest is an incident growing from the ground. The whole thing was like an earthquake."
> "There was a giant lizard, too!" Cirno adds once the woman has finished talking.
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