#thread{kanbaru05}

@theformerace

🌀 —- The morning sun greeted her in a most unusal way that day. Well... Unusual in the sense that it was all too familiar. Having barely readjusted to the poor air and sound quality of Hive City, as she stirred under her blankets she could only think ‘oh, I’m back at the shrine’. The air felt clean, if not thinner from being atop a mountain, and the only sound that pierced the morning quiet was the chirping of birds. 

Wait, wasn’t this actually the Moriya Shrine?

Sanae Kochiya shot up from her futon, greeted by a familiar... mess. This was certainly her bedroom, a room of the Moriya Shrine’s main building that had been fashioned into her quarters. The shelves were lined with things like manga she’d brought from the outside to things like pretty stones she’d found around Gensokyo. The morning sun poured in through an open door, making the dancing dust particles visible.

If she were home, how? And... what was clinging to her side?

Slowly... ever so slowly, she pulled back the sheet beneath which another body was clearly positioned. Was it Suwako playing a prank on her?

But no, it was...