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While it was true that some kitsune chose to live as normal wild animals, all foxes possessed magic.
Fear, my sensei had taught me, was simply the body’s aversion to pain and suffering.
It is very hard to be human, little fox. Even the humans themselves don’t do a great job of it.
“Master Isao had a saying. He told me that the tiniest pebble, when dropped into a pond, will leave ripples that will grow and spread in ways we cannot comprehend.”
“It seemed they weren’t satisfied with starving to death while their emperor built himself a palace made of gold,” Okame added behind us. “Ungrateful wretches.”
The spider does not spin its web in a heartbeat, nor does the albatross fly across oceans with a few flaps of its wings. Many would consider what they do impossible, and yet, they still complete their tasks without fail, because they simply...start.
Follow me, my precious ducklings.

