Risako's Initiation

[Megaera]

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Kinkaku-ji, Shikoku

Mariko walked though the hallway of the central shrine of Kinkaku-ji. Other than the faint echo of her footsteps and the soft chanting of priestesses, the hallway was completely silent. Here and there were calligraphied scrolls depicting sceneries or poetry by Matsuda's hand which covered the walls.

She stopped and knelt down behind a screen and quitely slid it open. A soft light, shining through the shoji paper screen which separated the room from the flowering gardens outside the shrine, illuminated the figure sitting in the center. The Tokoma behind her was decorated with gold colored atsumono chrysanthemums.

Mariko waited a moment to admire the view before speaking.

"Sister Mayumi, are you ready?"

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