Your mother was a natural apothecary and was the one everybody went to whenever there was something up with their body. You could go to the hospital i...f it was really serious but they had a nasty tendency of convincing you that you were really sick and needed to use unnatural synthetic ways to make your body work properly. You had realized early on that you would not be going there as the would just pumped you full of chemicals that did god now's what to you and your children and then convince. Asshole I want them free. Hurry up!!!"."I beg your pardon Sir "I repliedListening our conversation Mistress began to laugh "pathetic loser".I gripped and pull hard in one motion, and winced as the spicy tendrils of foot odour quickly curled up my nose. There was actually visible steam coming off his foot-print stained white sock. ( I hand scrub these, but it doesn't help when he walks around outside without shoes.) He pressed the huge damp sole against my face and held it there while I worked. Jake kidded Mike that he had nice tits and Mike got mad and made us all swear to never tell anyone what had happened. Seeing how mad he was we all agreed.After that we all went our separate directions and I went home. I thought about what had happened as I walked home. I had the pendant and it hadn’t done any permanent harm to Mike. It wouldn’t hurt to try it out. My parents were not due home until dinner time so I had several hours of privacy.I went into the bathroom and locked the door. . I couldn't wait.The path wound out of the forest and passed our onsen. The air was chilly despite my excitement. I was shocked by how cool it was for a summer evening. I stared ahead and...Something glowed. A great, yellow light spilled through the trees, dancing, wavering. Fire?Was something on fire? My stomach clenched as I raced down the path, my excitement forgotten. There was a fire. Was it the village or...? No. It couldn't be the shrine. No, no, no. That was impossible. The shrine.