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Katrina remained silent, not minding the young youkai that latched to her hand. She couldn't help but see Sabitsuki as a kid, even when they were about the same in Youkai years. Katrina had lived some other things she did not hope Sabi had to live, and while lost in her thoughts, she ignored when they made it to the portal and she felt the arms around her waist.

The seven sin youkai stood baffled at the sudden show of affection, but after a second she returned the gesture slowly, just as the portal worked its magic.

When they returned to the shrine, Fuzen was waiting for Katrina with the mirror youkai's lantern in her hand. The demon excused herself, and walked to the demoness. On the other hand, Fuzen welcomed her, thanked her for her timely intervention, and handed over the heavy oni-crafted lantern. "Feel free to come back to the shrine when you feel like visiting~" the temptress smiled as sweetly as ever, patting the mirror youkai's head,"The doors will always be open, now... I think I will go give Katrina a new outfit. I wonder how long she's had that!" Mara turned and took Katrina's wrist, dragging her off.
"...Ah- Goodbye, Sabitsuki--"

Candlelit Requiem Part Two:
Lost Sheep Mean Lost Shepard

There was little to be done afterwards, but inside of Sabitsuki's home there was various stray spirits about her home, floating about idly and really paying their "host" no mind when she entered. A staff was leaned over a table, with a ghost resting over it as if sleeping. The reason for the ghosts was equally lost wondering about the home curiously.

The clatter of the staff produced a "Ah!" from deeper, before hurried steps came to the main room. The shepard peeked her head into the room, with a blink, before moving to pick up her staff from the ground, immidiately, the ghosts gathered around her,"I am sorry for being rude. I simply couldn't stand being out in the open in former hell."

She bowed to Sabitsuki, putting a hand to her chest,"I hope you excuse my intrusion into you home. I trust you still remember me, from the incident not so long ago." Tebiki straightened out.

"I never did get your name, and if I did my memory fails, Hakurei Maiden."

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"Mistaken? So you are not the descendant of the Hakurei clan of any sort?" The shepard seemed deep in though, as she held her chin thought."Mh... you'd think that after this much time in my position I would have been able to clearly tell you are a simple mirror youkai -not that mirror youkai are ordinary these days- but understand that I thought thee to be a maiden when we met hither, so close to the demon's lair."

"Ah yes!" Snapping from her wondering thoughts Tebiki came back to the present," I heard that you lived here, and since I had to leave with the demon in tow last time, I never even thought of your well being as I should have...." The spirit went to gather her staff and undust it,"I was curious about you,in a way; curious unlike I had been in quite a bit of time." She chuckled and turned to Sabitsuki,"I've lived for along time, and I had never seen a possession by the Hakurei before, though it makes me question how the Hakurei managed to bind you in such a way that you were able to fight a demon like Fuzen-Mara and her servant so avidly."

"That is it; 'unordinary.' A mirror youkai, I had not heeded of them in a long time. It is not very common for a youkai to spring from an inanimate object. An incredible amount of stored emotion is needed for that," Tebiki said moving to sit across the table from Sabitsuki, leaning the staff on the edge of the table next to her. "Positive and Negative alike."

"Yes I believe you," she smiled warmly, in her way not very unlike Mara's,"I am a spirit myself. I know what kind of possession's there little ones are...." As she spoke, Tebiki pinched the tail of a soul between her thumb and index finger. The little ghost floated like a fly caught in a string would not stirring much, even when Tebiki tugged it onto her open palm and begun to pet it.

The Shepard nodded to herself,"It does indeed sound like a possession, Sabitsuki, right?" Still petting the happy spirit in her hands, she looked at the mirror youkai across from her. "It's possible you had a meeting with someone related to the Hakurei clan so long ago you no longer remember it. Prithee, a possession by the Hakurei is nothing to he concerned, they are benevolent spirts. Now and again Hijou-sama checks their time chart till reincarnation to see if she can shorten their place at Hakugyokurou as if looking for a way to return them quickly to the world of the living."

The Shepard released the ghost that gleefully floated away,"The Hakurei intervention may have been well what let us defeat the two demons that day."

"Of course. When an object is given will, it becomes a being. Being's think, therefore they are capable of changing the paths set out for them." Tebiki responded as Sabitsuki seemed a bit quiet. Had she said something offensive?

"That is likely what made a bond between you and the Hakurei lineage," The shepard responded,"When two lives so much as graze on another, they have the potential to influence one another for as long as one or the other exists. It would not be farfetched to think that you were the only one with such connection that was involved with the incident, and by turn, the only one the Hakurei could reach to." The spirit nodded to herself,"That is right, humans are in more danger than ever, and only the return of the Hakurei can put some pressure on matters, perhaps if the Moriya Shrine wou--"

"Ah?" Tebiki blinked at Sabitsuki, and smiled once more,"Yes. Hijou Akira. She is the Yama I work under, and I have done so for a couple years now. Hijou-sama is still young by Yama standards, and she has a long way till receiving a proper tittle, but she is well in her way. She is still a bit soft, but time in court will erase that in due time."

"Yamas do not forget, my dear, even if she was young," Tebiki smiled at Sabitsuki," nothing wrong with soft.... These spirits are soft, and they are at peace in their existence."

The shepard looked to the little mirror as she asked her about Fuzen and why she had been allowed freedom. She was but a child, much like Tebiki's body was frozen in the frame she had died in. The spirit's mind had aged, and as that, she saw that Sabitsuki too would age with time. "It was a... rather unflattering compromise." The shepard tapped her finger onto the table recalling the court hearing,"Apparently, Fuzen-mara had served a previous sentence in the Sealed Chamber, from the third time I had captured her. Even though she had been broke out, the demon drove a good bargain, saying she would stay within the Underground till she be called forth or summoned, arguing that she had gathered faith even in her absence. That was true in one way... additionally, her servant...... "

Tebiki sighed,"The third time I found Fuzen-mara, in her shrine, I took her for judgement, and left the Seven Sin Youkai unconscious in the shrine. If I hadn't left her... perhaps her story would have been another. I think she turned bitter, and without the guidance of an older demon, a bit erratic and unable to understand her own power. ... Ah, what i am trying to say is that I took the once-human demon's teacher, and because of that, I could have potentially created another creature like Fuzen-mara."

Once more she sighed,"You would think I would have learned from my first mistake; it goes so far as to show I am still human in some corner of my heart."

"I am hoping the demoness does not cause trouble now that she has Fuzen-Mara at her door once more. Letting Mara's Daughter return to the shrine was the leseer of two evils," Tebiki responded, noting the certain affection the mirror youkai,'We are hoping that ... Katrina, was it?... Behaves a bit more now. It seems there is already a bit of a change, from what you say, Miss Kaibutsu."

The shepard tilted her head," careful with what you chose to believe from the temptress. Her charm is a poison that can run into anyone's veins, little one; its that softness that makes me most uneasy." The small jump from sabitsuki made Tebiki leave that matter aside," Whatever you have and feel like offering, my dear host." The spirit couldn't help but smile a bit at Sabitsuki's energy.

"I suppose this means that you have formed a bond with Mara's Residents?" The spirit spoke interlocking her fingers and leaning her elbows onto the table. Pensively she leaned her chin on her interwoven fingers. "The two demons, the mole, the oni... all of them are in our watch list. I warn you not to join them, child, they are not a nice crew. ... But if you believe you can influence them in a positive away, do so carefully."