<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/thumb/7/76/Www-bangtidy-net-756159.jpg/600px-Www-bangtidy-net-756159.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Kumiho (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=250173.msg12368433#msg12368433)<br/><strong>City | Date | Time:</strong>Ashoro, Hokkaido, Japan | August 7, 2017 | 9 AM<br/><strong>Tagging | Mentioning:</strong>Kaede<br/><strong>Content:</strong>Extraction<br/><hr/>Kumiho felt like she had walked a hundred miles in the last day.  Leaving the cities of Japan for the countryside was always a shock, going from the world's fastest and most futuristic transportation to a network of old roads.  Nothing was all that far apart, nothing could be in such a small country, but it felt like stepping back a hundred years.  It didn't help that despite Kumi's flawless Japanese and a form that she thought could at least pass for Japanese, out here in the country everyone treated her as an outsider.  She had managed to hop a few rides, and get some directions to bus stations, but the further out she got, and the closer to her destination, the colder the reception grew.<br/><br/>Here in this village, Kumiho was sure she would find the woman she was looking for.  Every rumor and story had narrowed it down to this one town, yet every person she asked acted as if they'd never even heard of young women before, nevermind this particular young woman.  They were either protecting their own, afraid of the girl, or Kumiho had somehow got it all wrong.<br/><br/>Luckily they were too polite to simply run Kumiho off, particularly in this form of a young woman.  So, dressed in a tank top and pair of cargo pants, with a rucksack over one shoulder, Kumi simply pulled back her dark hair from her sweat-drenched face, and walked from field to field.  Everything she had heard about this lady said that she would be found on one of these farms.  And if the more wild stories about her could be believed, she would be quite recognizable.  Kumiho paused at each field, looking for workers, peering into backyards, and otherwise being a pain in the ass.  Seeing a fellow standing out near a field of wheat, Kumi shifted the pack on her shoulder and called out in Japanese, "Hello, there.  Do you have a bit of water?"<br/>