Board Thread:Important Logs/@comment-25687356-20170925211950/@comment-26021384-20171016235607

 Inari's Perspective 

She was first? That was--not something she had anticipated, but the fact that some people saw this more as a competition was a little alien to her. She only wanted to perform her singing talents for the crowd and let everyone know she was here for something as joyful as expressing emotions in her song.

She had chosen something she felt symbolized everyone in the camp and the situation of the world at the time being. So when her name was called, she gripped the neck of her guitar, letting the bell-shaped end of it hang below as she took in a deep breath and started to walk out onto the stage.

Her shoes had been exchanged for ceremonial clog sandals, clacking against the wood of the stage as she walked forwrd, making sure that nothing short of a powerful gust of wind would mess up the angle of her skirt. As she came to the edge of the stage, she stopped and sat down, hanging her legs off of the end, one leg over the other, holding the guitar in her lap. She held the neck in her left hand while her right hand lifted that fox mask up and away from her face, resting it askew on her head like a hat to reveal her face entirely.

Inari's Song

She was sitting there with her eyes closed and started to strum on the guitar, fingers picking at strings individually and playing full chords to start the song, starting to sing her lyrics as the cue came across. Her eyes closed for the first few words of the song before she looked out to the crowd as a whole and continued her song, making sure that she did not miss a single beat.

Her work as a shrine maiden paid off in droves, her singing voice was well tuned and not prone to cracking one bit, and the song helped to convey a message that the only thing that they had before them, the camp as a whole, was each other and the future to look forward to, that they were all watched over by one another and that with one another, they could overcome this and reclaim their lands, that this was not their final place to stand, this world was theirs and they would take it back someday.

When she finished her song, she stood up and took a deep bow, crading her guitar carefully before she would see herself off the stage after any applause for her would end.