<strong>Location:</strong>The moon<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Tian Lei<br/><br/>Chang'e gave a warm smile of understanding, so glad to see his compassion.  "This is a little difficult to understand, but I'll do my best," she said.  "Onogoro-Jima Island is very slightly separated from reality.  Not completely, and it's very easy for anyone divine or even approaching it to figure out ways to pass onto it.  You may have noticed that Kyle of the Fairwinds Ferry has a large Raidho on the back of his ship, which is the Norse way to enter."  None of this was made common knowledge around the school, but Luke may well have noticed a few issues and things that didn't quite make sense, such as cell phone reception not following the usual patterns until on the island proper.<br/><br/>"The Visitation, certainly, is as intimate an experience as being born and dying.  It just can't happen with your friends present, and it happens outside traditional time and space, so the two have very peculiar methods of playing off each other, even without the usual problems of multi-pantheon interactions.  I-"<br/><br/>"Holy Goddess Chang'e!"  The Jade Rabbit hopped up and over, giving her a formal bow.  Then, distracted, she looked to Luke.  "Is this Tian Lei?  No one told me how handsome he is."<br/><br/>Chang'e gently chided, "Business before pleasure.  You have news?"<br/><br/>The Jade Rabbit nodded to Chang'e.  "A visitor has requested to be a part of the Visitation, and all the paperwork has already been filled out."<br/><br/>When the Jade Rabbit offered the paperwork, Chang'e skimmed it over before adding her seal of approval, then looked to Luke.  "If I sent you now, you wouldn't actually arrive until your friends did.  You might be on the beach, but any attempts to enter or rescue Hitomi would leave you with no more time than if you waited."  She smiled her reassurance that everything would be fine as she returned the paperwork.  "And if it helps to know, he won't actually try to sacrifice her until sunset."<br/><br/>With everything set, smoke coiled and formed in the...air?  Was there air here, or was he only breathing from magic?  Nonetheless, the shape took the form of Wu, nearly insubstantial yet still holding the gift of the package sent by Jian.  The mail couldn't possibly have delivered it already, and yet, there it was, already sealed up and sent over by his sworn brother.  There was no way that could have happened yet, leading credence to Chang'e's attempt to explain how time was funny at the moment and there was no real rush.<br/><br/>"I'm proud of you, my boy," Wu said with a warm smile, giving the package to Tian Lei before offering Chang'e the reverent bow a goddess deserves.  He didn't ask whether Luke remembered how to call upon him as an ancestor spirit; Wu had too much faith in him to imagine he'd forget.<br/><br/>"While I still have a chance," Chang'e offered to Luke, "I wanted to make you an offer."  She pulled a lucky rabbit's foot pendant from a pocket, showing it to him.  "I have<em>already</em>repaid your father, but I have few warriors at my disposal.  You've met Lin; she's a healer, not a fighter, and while the two aren't incongruous by any means, I have use of a man who's good with a staff."<br/><br/>The Jade Rabbit just grinned at a joke that didn't occur to Chang'e or Wu.<br/><br/>"If you agree," Chang'e offered, "I'll offer you this, and with it the power to bend the power of the moon and Fate to your whims.  In return, I want to be able to call upon you for a task when the sun aligns with the world and the Earth sees the moon in its full glory.  The wayward panty raider is hardly the full extent of the ghosts, devils, monsters, and other types of beings that require Heaven's attention in one way or another.  I don't ask that you kill them; it is enough if you ensure that they follow the proper way."<br/><br/>That reminded Wu of something, and he gave a bow in request to speak before Chang'e permitted with a gesture.  "I've been keeping tabs on Pangxie Daolong, the dragon you met yesterday.  Such was his failure that he didn't even recognize that he'd met the son of Sun Wukong, and Ao Guang stripped him of all rank.  Rumors state that he's looked into the service of other titans, many of whom are outside the Shen and irredeemable.  Eventually, he'll learn your true identity, if he hasn't already."  He gave a small smile.  "Thankfully, his competence is lacking in many areas, though I'd worry about a direct combat confrontation."