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“Lady Yae? To what do I owe the pleasure?”
“Nothing much my dear, just keeping an eye out on the lovely little newcomer is all. How are you finding the shrine? Have the others been treating you well?”
“Everything’s been going really well Lady Yae! Honestly, without the help and encouragement from the others…I doubt I’d be where I am today…the height still gets to me sometimes though!”
“So modest…come now, speak truthfully; what’s got you all tied up in a knot? Your body’s as stiff as a rock!”
“Well…if you say so Lady Yae…it might sound silly, but…”
Lengthy vulpine ears twitch in unison with a mischievous grin spreading across the sly visage of the Grand Narukami Shrine’s head; Yae Miko. A well known figure across the vast land of Inazuma. A lovely place torn asunder by a blunder of a decree that had since left its people struggling against a worsening economic crisis…add to that a shadowy movement by foreign powers and a brewing rebellion. And it was safe to say that the isolated archipelago had seen better times. A dark cloud that encompassed even the shrine itself, seeing a greater number of visitors every day whose pleas to end the decree would ultimately go ignored.
And in her own fit of melancholic thought, Yae had come across an intriguing character while out on another one of her usual haunts across Inazuma, setting her sights on the blonde haired foreigner who had shown up alongside a batch of oddities. Singling the twin tailed maiden out for her ’unique talents and a powerful devotion to serve’ in an act that saw her snatching up the oblivious girl when no one was looking…and with a little serving of kitsune magic, it wasn’t long till she had herself a dutiful miko wholly devoted to her role of serving the needs of the Grand Narukami Shrine and all it’s devotees. Blissfully ignorant to the warped teachings that filled her head alongside realigned allegiances that left her dancing in the palm of Yae’s hands, all while more and more of her physical being began to fade in unison with her spirit the more she fell into her role as a simple minded shrine maiden…beginning with the swift replacement of glaringly bright blonde hair with lustrous black locks before her petite frame had begun to age and fatten nicely in the following days. Gaining heft and appeal in all the right places as subtle curves and heaving mounds began to tent and stretch the standard dressings Yae could still remember being flat and linear upon her awakening as an amnesiac under the care of the Kitsune Saiguu herself…
“I’ve been having strange dreams lately...and in them, I can’t help but feel…a connection somehow…even though Inazuma’s been my home for the past few years. What do they mean Lady Yae?”
Save for her azure blue eyes, almost everything about the foreign youth had been replaced with that of a homebred, Inazuman lady. With the only things that could be called similarities being the talents the two individuals shared; a natural affinity to make the people around her break into warm smiles by instilling a boundless will within them upon her mere presence and a remarkable voice worthy of a songstress…except instead of devoting her entire being to the worship of Barbatos. Miyako would serve to strengthen the people’s faith in the Electro Archon…for what little good it served besides to placate the masses until a more stable era of peace could be ushered in…and with the arrival of a certain Traveler and his tiny, winged friend just beyond the steps of the shrine, that time would soon be upon them.
“I wonder…memories are a fickle thing indeed. But alas, we must continue this some other time. I sense a unique oddity right outside our doors. Would you mind accompanying me to welcome our guests Miyako?”
“M-Most certainly Lady Yae! Thank you…for listening I mean…”
“On the contrary my dear, when the time comes and we have a moment…you wouldn’t mind regaling me of these ‘old memories’, would you?”
Sharing a laugh with her miko, Yae turns to head outside where a small gathering had already formed. Maybe one day she would return Miyako to whence she came, but until then, Barbara’s sudden disappearance would simply be another issue amongst many to contend with in the Traveler’s bucket list…
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A commission caption involving Barbara from Genshin Impact being spirited away to serve as a simple shrine maiden in an effort to maintain the population's spirits in the midst of the Sakoku Decree...
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