#shigure
Chapter Six. “Waiting for the Late Autumn Rains.”
Japanese seems to have special words for seasonal weather. This chapter shows a good example, 時雨 (しぐれ, shigure), means later autumn or early winter drizzle. Which is also a special reading for those characters.
I think the first time I ran across the term “shigure,” it had to do with a museum in Japan that somebody (recently retired?) from Nintendo had created, and I think they were using the Nintendo DS (the original DS, which was just new at the time) to serve as a tour guide.
Akito breaking everyone’s curse: *recalling spirit of the original promise* *talking to her dead father* *collapsing on the floor in sadness and terror*
Other members of the zodiac when akito breaks the curse: *tears streaming down their face* *overwhelmed with confused emotions as new possibilities open up for them but also everything they knew is being ripped away and they have to deal with a loneliness and sheer uncertainty they’ve never felt before*
Shigure when the curse breaks: *pauses walking* huh. *continues walking*
