[He sighs. For a second he wonders, not for the first time, if he should even be talking about this.

Buuut it'd be sort of hard to back out now. So.]

I haven't told anyone about this, but...there's a miko in the village. Hino Rei.

The night I got here, I showed up in her house. Scared her pretty bad, I guess, because--

[Hold on! Sidetrack. This time he turns and actually looks at her, seeming more than a little irritated.] Did you know miko actually have...powers? Some kind of spiritual garbage?

[He isn't the only one who thought they were all a sham, right?]