It was yet another day of Lael doing absolutely nothing in The Lambs cult as per usual, or more importantly it had been a day since she saw that vile thing go out yet another crusade only to bring someone else back with them.

What were they supposed to be? Some kind of goat? Well, they certainly didn't look like it. Not that they even looked like a sheep either. In fact, they resembled her more than anything. How strange...

“What? Did you really lose track of time on your last crusade? Come on now… you’re lucky that I stayed behind to tend to everyone here. Otherwise they would have been starving to death.” It spoke to its fellow animal, gesturing towards those who slept, and those who were still awake, laboring away or tending to their own business.

“Next time you may not be as lucky, you know. Even I have personal business to attend to.” Said personal business may or may not be going to play a couple rounds of Knucklebones with the lads.

The Lamb lets out a respective huff with the lightest flick of their frog tongue as they allow their giant bounty bag plop down onto the grass.  It was awful enough carrying the large burlap full of their people’s food all the way home on their back; and even when they could carry their giant hammers with ease… This ram still had its own limits to burden.  Have you ever tried to fight with one hand and try to defend your people’s food with the other, while also trying to guard your one fatal blindside on top of all that?  They were a lot of things, but being emperor came with a lot of demands when you’re trying to honor your empire with its sickness.

Either way, the Emperor rolls their eyes in response to the Goat’s accusations.  “Can you truly blame us though?”  They allow the rough gruffness of their true voice spill through their “natural” godly tongue, with the only excuse most of their shared flock had been out of earshot.  They weren’t in the right mood to puff their performative feathers out when most of everyone had passed out earlier from the Goat’s aggressive pestering.  “Time moves much faster when you can only walk all this distance from village to broken village, Bubba.”  As they spoke, a couple of their insomniac inner flock moved silently around them to retrieve the bloody bag, dragging it towards the far away kitchen to possibly use the strange mystery meat for breakfast later.  They always seemed to come out from the shadows without as much as a word said, popping in and out of hiding from sight like demons disappearing into the night.

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" Cinders and ashes! " Thomas exclaims, forcing his bike to a skidding halt as he nearly rode straight into the other. It was anyone's guess as to which of the two of them wasn't paying attention, but either way, that could have ended quite poorly if Thomas hadn't stopped himself in time.

As it turned out, Percy had a surprising knack for picking up languages. He initially started taking Japanese in secondary school (mostly because he was required to have a certain number of second language credits in order to graduate), but soon found that he actually quite enjoyed learning the language. While his dyslexia certainly made it more challenging, he managed to find his own ways of working around it. He'd even been able to enroll in the AP class!

As part of his final project, he would be assigned a random student from Japan to exchange letters with over the course of the semester. The idea was that it would act as both a cultural exchange and a way to practice writing in hiragana.

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Dear Mitsuru,

You don’t know me, and I don’t know you. But that is totally ok! My name is Percy. My full name is actually "Percival", but I prefer to be called Percy. I hope my handwriting isn't too messy. We're not allowed to type our letters, so I have to write everything by hand. I don't mind, though! It's better practice this way. 

I live on the Island of Sodor. It's a small island located just off the coast of England. I like living here because it's close to the sea. Do you live near the ocean? I also like living here because you can take the train pretty much anywhere you need to go, so you don't even need to have a car! I like taking the train to school every day.

I like drawing, photography, and comic books. Sometimes, when I'm bored in class, I'll draw pictures in my notebook. I also like origami and collecting stationery. When the weather is good, I like to fly kites! What do you like to do for fun? 

Do you have a job? I work part-time at the post office. Right now I'm saving up to buy a new scooter, since mine was stolen a few months ago. I won't let that get me down, though! Once I have enough money, I'll buy an even better one.

I'm excited to get to know you! I want to know all about your favorite things and what your life is like. I hope we can be friends.

Sincerely, your friend from Sodor,

Percy.

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