"Just have to figure out how to not be taken over, then we can visit Chikushudo and hike the tallest mountain in existence. Sounds like fun to me actually."

"Spiritual vacation, spending time in a different realm then? May I should visit sakkaku and see what it's like this time of year?" he asks, chuckling after.

"So perhaps life for them is much the same in their own realms too and they simply come here to try to escape their normal struggle?" he asks curiously.

"But I feel like the Shosuro represent that pursuit better than many. How many times have you seen them act? They sometimes seem to disappear into their roles, almost with a physical transformation. Not to say that they are perfect or that they are playing a perfect role, but that transformation can...

For his part, Taiguno returned the bow but didn't interject as the other two seemed to know each other. But he figured that a light chant that wasn't loud enough to interfere with conversation couldn't hurt. So he began a mantra chant... ...because monks can be strange. Perhaps surprisingly, the qua...

"I like to view life as a spiral rather than a circle. struggling and living, around and around each other until the clash at the center. Dancing around each other until the ultimate last step where life passes into death. But if life and Ningen-do are both like that, and they are reflections of the...

"I requested the opportunity to come here, so I might spend my days promoting Uzuki-no-kami among the artisans and performers on the World of Dreams. It's my hope to someday see a shrine or temple dedicated to her. She is a patron to many Spider creatives, but I would love to see her venerated by th...

Taiguno was present in the garden, wandering with a rice ball he had gotten from the temple for lunch. He noted the performers and found a spot to listen from. The monk clapped for them when they finished.

"The only thing that makes a monk neutral to clan affairs is their personal morality. We are fallible and subject to bias just like any other person. I have a bit of an edge because I did not grow up with a loyalty to a clan, but I also have bias because I was trained and raised by individuals that ...

"Life continues, yes. But consider which would be more difficult: ending all life or resurrecting everyone that has ever died and giving them immortality? Life and death are not order and chaos. In fact, I would say that life is more chaotic than death and death more ordered than life. Certainly we ...

"Also, take into account that often times temples are supported or maintained by clan or imperial donations. It makes things difficult. The temples on your homeworld are filled with retired Crane, paid for by Crane coin, decorated with Crane art, and built with Crane design, while catering to Crane ...

"Ah... purpose. The ultimate snipe that people hunt," he replies with a chuckle. "Here is a question: if there was a purpose for life or death, some defined ideology, would it actually change the state of life or death?"

He rises and then bows in a smooth set of movements, clearly used to doing so for others. "Good afternoon Mirumoto-sama. I hope you are well and the fortunes are blessing your path."

"I think that a lot of art makes it to different places we don't expect. It probably just doesn't usually get noticed next to the art promoted by the clans. But the brotherhood isn't part of any clan even if it doesn't seem that way sometimes with some temples."

"Depends on the temple, but during chore hours we would listen to different stations where I was. Uzuki is the fortune of perfection so many of her followers are artisans and performers that wish to achieve perfection. That makes it fitting to display and present the creations of such artists," he e...

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Taiguno is sitting near the entrance to the temple, observing the foot traffic an meditating on the flow of people. It was curious to him, to see the people that pass by the temple, observing which ones spared a glance, which ones stopped to offer prayers, and which pretended the shrine to the Dark ...

"Ah!" Taiguno says, with a nod and a smile. "I've heard some of your music. Yes. I'd hear it among the mix of popular music played when I was cleaning around the temple. It's very fun music."

"Oh? Which group? Maybe I have heard you before on recordings?" Taiguno replies.

"A singer then? Lots of performers here on the world of dreams. I met Susumu Yakumo the other day," the monk replies with a nod. "I like singing too, but I mostly just do so in private and to myself." He smiles at Hinata.