She sat down next to the drum and reached over for the broom, setting it down on her lap. "Well, like everything here in the Void, the rule aren't being obeyed unless it brought them here," she admitted with a shrug. "Back home, it took a hundred years of loving use and honor for a tool to wake up. And then they had to be forgotten and mistreated for a while. Some of them are just whiny but it does get lonely I suppose."

She was less sympathetic. But that was because, like most youkai, they were just noisy in her book. "These ones are pretty squeaky wheels so I don't think any of them are getting ignored right now. Any I find I bring here. It's a shrine, so they seem happy." Because working in a shrine was pretty honored work for a spirit.

"Name's Parsee... you're new right?"