bookworm-poet

Rei froze when she saw the shadow fall across the doorway of the tiny temple.  She flattened herself against the old wood floor beneath the altar and held her breath. She heard the usual sound of clapping, followed by a man's voice against the backdrop of a chorus of locusts buzzing throughout the forest.  He rumbled on for a long time like she had heard others do, praying to o-Fudō-sama, the angry god on the altar above her head.   Rei hoped the man would leave food behind so she could eat.  She had managed to snack on some rice balls and fruit that others had left for the better part of the mon