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IF FUCKING YOUKAI IS SUPPOSED TO BE A SIN AGAINST GENSOKYO THEN WHY DID THEY MAKE YOUKAI WOMEN SO FUCKING HOT?

"How can we trust you? You - You kidnapped us!" Yamame did have a point, but this had already happened to me, so I knew already that we were at Hearn's mercy, and if we ever wanted to go home, we had to play by her rules. I caught Yamame's arm as she turned toward the other blonde, and pulled her closer to me. I whispered urgently in her ear to just play along, and everything would be fine. She looked at me with confusion across her face, and I supposed that my gaze must have had the right sort of intensity in it, because after a moment, she slowly nodded and began to pull her scarf off. I shrugged my coat off, then heavily regretted not having anything to wear underneath my sweater. A thin shirt like Yamame's would have been perfect right now. But then, after a few moments of hearing that gentle whirring noise from the thing near the ceiling, I realised that the temperature in the room had somehow dropped, despite it still being just as sunny outside. Was it some sort of...cold air youkai? I knew that there was a yuki-onna somewhere in the valley during winter, but as far as I knew, you couldn't stick her in a box and put her in any room you wanted.

"Hmm..." Hearn made a great show of thinking deeply about Yamame's question. "Well, your dear human seems to have made the case for you, but to summarise: You can choose to not trust me, and I can assure you that if you were to try and escape from here, you would not survive the week. Alternatively, you can choose to trust me, and you will enjoy a nice meal followed by a comfortable trip home, feeling considerably enlightened. This is your choice, though I would imagine that it's a rather easy one to make." The situation had been very much the same the last time Hearn had kidnapped me, though I had been alone, in the dark - figuratively and literally - and much more nervous at the time. This time, the bright daylight and amazing view was making it much more difficult to maintain the suspicion. "Now, I took the liberty of making his order for him, but I hadn't expected him to have a companion, so if you'll excuse me, I must inform my shikigami that there will need to be a second order." She stared deeply at Yamame, and I got the sense that something was being communicated between them. "Unless, of course, you don't have any taste for it, anymore."

Yamame stared, frozen. I could tell that this was a big deal for her and that I shouldn't interrupt. She opened her mouth, then closed it again. Then, she looked sideways at me. "Just...beef, please." She finally choked out. I took her hand under the table and squeezed it tightly, and she gave me a weak smile.

"Is that right?" Hearn gave us a smile that I was sure she thought was reassuring, though to me it just came off as smug. "Just like last time, hmm?" She said to me. "Well, I'll be right back. Don't go anywhere, you two." She turned, her dress swirling around her, and gave us an offhand wave as she disappeared through a set of double doors on the other side of the room. For a moment, I caught a glimpse of what looked to be a kitchen, and I thought I saw another woman inside, tall and with a severe face. She looked vaguely familiar, though before I got a chance to place her, Yamame was pulling on my sweater to make me turn to her.

"What the hell is happening?" She hissed at me. "Who is that? Why does she know you?" I explained as quickly as I could the circumstances of the last time I had met Hearn, in the dark atop another massive building, with rain lashing at the windows and indistinct whispers of conversation happening all around me. In comparison, this was rather nice. "She already kidnapped you once and you never told me?" Her voice sounded slightly dangerous now, so I raised my hands in surrender and told her that I hadn't expected it to come up, nor had I expected her to kidnap me in the middle of the day from the village, where everyone could see. Even so, I apologised for not telling her. "I...Okay, fine. Let's just...get through this." It hadn't been...the worst thing to happen to me, the last time, so I hoped that it wouldn't be too bad this time either. At least the view was good.

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Why would a spider bite you?

Spiders are my favourite invertebrate. They are my greatest ally to rid the world of mosquitoes. I wish that phenomenon occurred where the trees look like cotton candy from all the spider web over here.