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natsume makes more friends
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The thing is, she still doesn't have a lot of friends. Definitely not ones that are around. Sayuri is... yeah. But she's not local. And Nanami is... a lot. And also not human. Which is fine, but also means she has her own thing going on a lot of the time.

So one evening before dinner, it's just Tsubaki and Nyanko-sensei strolling down the riverside.

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Which is when she hears some tiny youkai muttering something about an odd human, from the approximate direction of 'her feet.'

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"An odd human?"

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The youkai startle at her voice and scurry off!

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"Worth poking around, do you think?"

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"Might as well. Not doing anything else."

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Onwards, then!

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They fairly quickly stumble on a cleared bit of grass, with a circle with strange symbols drawn in it in the dirt.

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Recognizable symbols at all?

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...Hrm, possibly spiritually significant? Nyanko isn't exactly classically educated.

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Tsubaki will take some notes for the next time she meets with Sayuri.

Any tracks or disturbances in the vicinity?

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Some scuffed dirt, maybe, going in a specific direction.

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Seems worth checking.

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It doesn't take too long for them to come across a girl about Natsume's age, using a long stick to draw details in a circle in the dirt. She's vaguely familiar.

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"Hello?"

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She startles. "Natsume - ?" And then her eyes go wide and she clasps her hand over her mouth - "I'm sorry!"

And she turns to run off.

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Wh- "Wait!"

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She pauses, briefly.

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"Don't I- know you from school? Why are you drawing these circles?"

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" - Nothing! No reason."

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"Are you... in trouble?"

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She tenses a bit.

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Deep breath. "I can help. If you are."

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"How?"

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"Um. What kind of trouble are you in? I... know some people?"

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She looks vaguely skeptical, and she doesn't respond right away. 

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