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Grave Saint	After the feast is done, the priestess of the cult dedicated to Sextis Jylis...or at least her questionable interpretation of it is currently sweeping the floors of the shrine all by herself. Despite the job being so mundane, she does not even complain nor flinch. In her spare time, she whistles an eerie yet entrancing tune while she does her job. In the flower field of red spider lilies surrounding the shrine, it seems as normal as any other flower field yet it looks prettier in the nighttime under the moon rather than the shine of day. But once someone steps on it, they feel bones and gravestones beneath them as it seems this higanbana bed has a dark past.
Serene Herald	Someone makes his way along the path, the scholar from Chiarascuro, walking with ease trhough the night, a ratehr large spider scuttling beside him. When he comes to the field of flowers, and the touch of bones and gravestones is evident, he pauses a moment, and then slowly makes his way through the flowers towards the shrine, trying to not disrespect the mortal remains and monuments more than is necessary. Eventually, he gets to the shrine, and nods to the priestess there. "It is being of good evening," he says. I am hoping you are being content?"
Grave Saint	Once she hears of someone approaching the shrine's premises, Bleeding Higanbana then turns her attention to an unexpected visitor in her doorstep. But once he gets closer, she realizes she meet him before. "Good evening visitor and I remember this is not the first time where we've meet each other" Higanbana then places her broom besides the wall. Of course I am content with the silence. My followers have recently went home, so this is one of the few times where I am alone...well until now. Not surprised if the bones beneath the flower field startled you. This field has an interesting....history"
Serene Herald	"If I am being intruding, I am not needing to be staying," he says. "And it is true, this field is definitely being a place of endings. But also of being change and new beginning. Death and life of being entwined."
Grave Saint	"You can stay for now since I have nothing much to do" She sighs but continues to explain the history of this field. "This field used to belong to an exigent of red spider lilies....and funeral customs. Despite flowers being associated with life, the red spider lily or the higanbana is related to death for it is the flower usually grown in graveyards and as a tribute to the dead. I heard this exigent was a necromancer...which explains this field" Despite the morbid topic, she stays composed. "The exigent was slain from what I heard although the reasons for it are unknown. But since no one took the shrine before I arrived, I claimed it for my own"
Serene Herald	"Interesting...And I am supposing it is of explaining the field. I am of wondering who the god was who raised the Exigent, and if another has been raised in his place..." He looks around curiously, and then steps to the altar and takes out a small block of incense which he sets on the altar and then lights, paying respects. "With the proper rites, one could propitiate the spirits of the dead here."
Grave Saint	"I heard the god left looking for her exigency after it was stolen from her if I remember and left Great Forks." But when Higanbana sees the visitor bringing some incense, her tone becomes a bit wary. "I don't think there are ghosts here. I assume an exorcist expelled them to Lethe. But I do revere the dragon of my aspect here" "My faith reveres Sextis Jylis as a God of life and death, both provider and destroyer. He Who Shall Bring The Final Harvest"
Serene Herald	"I can check to see, if you wish. Sorcerer I am being, though not great, powerful, and terrible. Still, know I some." He nods, 'But this is being your shrine, and looking I will not." He thinks a moment. "Who did you learn all of this from?"
Grave Saint	Once she realizes he is curious about her faith and where she learnt it from, she decides to use vague words. "I learned it from a fellow follower of Sextis Jylis. An elderly man in the North who preaches a Shining Path to enlightenment. He is also my master in the martial arts for I learned Silver Voiced Nightingale from him" She does not give out much details about this mentor of hers. "My mentor cannot sadly go here in the East for he has many enemies like a seductress whose a lover clad in a veil of tears and a prince of silver but thankfully he is far in the West"
Serene Herald	Serene Herald hmmms. "I am of understanding, then. And not wishing to be of coming to notice of your master's enemies is a great and good goal. Is your master being an censer's overseer? My mistress is of the violet reckoning." His eyes seem sharper, and he smiles in the darkness.
Grave Saint	She realizes that this scholar is surprisingly knowledgeable as she used names not well known in the East, yet he can still identify them...and her master which baffles. "I see you know of my master and his moniker for he is the elder of the hidden tabernacle." But once he mentions this mistress of the violet reckoning, she cannot identify her which then gives her a grim realization. "Impossible, your mistress is one of the 13? I only know of the 9 but the other 4 are still unknown to me"
Serene Herald	"She is of staying hidden in secrets, and defy her I dare not, even at my peril!" Perfect Question is stern and somber for the moment. "But hearing from her of enemies, or minions of enemies I am not. And word to her is of being difficult here. Willing am I neutral to you be, unless our goals are of conflicting." "Your title I will not be of asking, nor am of giving mine own to you. This is of being polite, yes?"
Grave Saint	She almost grabs a pipa giving a nightly shine but halts once she listens. "I see this hidden deathlord wants to stay undiscovered....very well" If one were to reveal each other to Great Forks, both will be doomed considering their hatred for the Heron. "Fine, as long as you do not interfere with my operations, I'll try not to pry for the title given to you by this "Mistress Of The Violet Reckoning" nor shall I reveal mine but the public moniker I use is Bleeding Higanbana. I still do not know the agenda of your mistress, but we can cooperate if you want if we share some goals. But you are welcome to visit as long as you do not have ill intent. Beneath this shrine is my manse"