Really got into this. Some clever descriptions and the protagonist’s personality screams out of the narration. Wonderful. Intriguing world. I want to know more about Inari’s version of historical events. More!
Prologue.
“Once there was a fox who lived nine times nine years in the wild places of ancient Japan and on the first dawn of her eighty-second year learned the trick of taking on human form and forgot the trick of dying. So the fox became a beautiful maiden and the maiden strolled through all the long centuries to the present day, travelling this world and those beyond it while donning a new disguise for each new land and every new age that she explored. But for all she saw and learne. . .