Submission (#10378) Approved

“Well then welcome. I’m on welcome duty and my name is Cerci.” The grey being introduced themselves while looking him over. He tried to think of his name. “I’m ah..” He stopped confused for a moment as he knew he had it a moment ago when he woke up. Already those dreamlike fragments were leaving him and it felt a bit bittersweet. He found himself tearing up. Cerci held a hand up and gently patted his shoulder. “Don’t think about it too hard for now. It’ll come to you later or even it doesn’t then you can always find a new name.” The smile from Cerci was gentle and understanding. They did give him a slightly confused look checking them up and down. “A bit of an odd one but I have to admit your coat is very pretty as are your leaves. Lets go with Spring for now?” Spring didn’t sound so bad. He nodded slowly. It didn’t quite suit him but it’s not like a name would really change who he was at all. Cerci took his hand and slowly lead him toward a structure further down the sand. The other kitsu spoke slowly and was listing things off on their fingers. “So we are headed toward Silverlight. Thet’s the town around here and sometimes folks just get plunked down by the gods near here. Sometimes they have memories from a past life, though most folks don’t have that and honestly.” Cerci gave him a small look. “I think the gods drop a few folks a bit too hard on purpose.” He chuckled at that. “Perhaps that’s to help make them forget?” Cerci laughed at that then continued. “Really though, folks like you appear all the time with little to no memory so don’t worry about sounding silly. Even something as simple as a name can be a blank for a few weeks. So basics to help you settle in will help. We are.” “Kitsusagi.” He had replied automatically. Cerci looked surprised then nodded and continued. He would try harder not to interrupt as he felt that was rude. “Yeppers Kitsu. This is Silverlight, lots of farming and adventuring, and of course fishing with the coast here. I wasn’t kidding about the gods. We have Eva and Gala living in town but she doesn’t come out and say much and we have Theris and Devrion. He stopped for a moment. He knew most of those names. It seemed so odd to hear that Gods just lived among them, casually. He took a few breaths and made a circling motion with his had to have Cerci keep going. “Right? Sorry I’ve been told that’s a lot for folks but better to know so if you meet them in town you are polite since they have mortal forms and all that.” Cerci seemed to just wave off that fact and kept going bringing him to a shed where another kitsu was preparing some different kinds of foods and setting them out expecting them apparently. “Now more important then all of that!” Cerci clapped their hands. “Lets find out what kinds of foods you like and then we will look at finding the housing commission and setting you up with a place to live. I hope we live close by as I can just tell we are gonna be great friends.” Part of him felt he was going to get dragged along being Cerci’s friend whether he liked it or not. He mulled over his name while eating as while he was fine with the name Spring it didn’t feel quite like home to him and quite frankly he wanted something that fit better. Of course it would be two weeks before his name Salis fully came back to him and by then his new friend would occasionally call him Spring just to annoy him. Still he much preferred that to the odd questions he got about not having a tail. Perhaps that was why Cerci did it?

Reward	Amount
Pile of Fine Sand	1
Grass	1
Silver	16