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Seimei is seated in a booth with a Mac laptop, a paper ledger and a disorganized layer of papers. They range from rather casually written missives inscribed with ballpoint pens on pages torn from legal pads to very formal documents printed on official-looking stationery emblazoned with seals to thick, more primitive varieties of paper written in various archaic forms of Japanese by means of calligraphy brushes.

The Obon Festival starts in about ten days, and just about everyone in the Land of the Rising Sun - including the gods themselves - is busy making preparations.

This particular god isn't too busy for a chat, though.

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[yosafbridge]

She's good at that part: slipping away without being remembered, but obviously, she can make an impression if she needs to. And nudging him if they've got somewhere else to be? Well, that doesn't sound too hard.

"Works for me."

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"Good. It will be an excellent way to learn proper etiquette: no doubt you've gathered that's important where I come from. It's even more important among denizens of the supernatural world. Even the appearance of disrespect can have dire consequences," he warns, in all seriousness.

"That reminds me, you should know how to bow properly. That is very important. Yuma the plum tree spirit can teach you. You can come find her at my house tomorrow, or I can send her to your apartment - whichever you would prefer."

[yosafbridge]

"Bow properly?"

Saffron lifts an eyebrow - what remains of her Companion training should be enough to suffice in terms of most etiquette and protocol, but bowing? Well, that's the sort of thing that she most likely skipped out on.

"... if you say so."

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"This is more complicated than it sounds, believe me," Seimei says. "My colleagues are very traditional, very old-fashioned. They go by the old, very formal rules. How one bows depends upon one's gender and their status relative to the person being addressed. When one bows also depends upon a number of things. You will be able to take your queues from me, but you can only do that if you know the rules.

"Yuma can train you better than I can - she's done this sort of thing before. And I am sure you will catch on quickly. You observe things well, and you have a natural grace."

(Of course Seimei knows that people rarely have 'natural grace': what they have is prior training. But it's easier and nicer to call it natural.)