Housing curses? Like- [ Gingerly, Tama picks up Kawako, and gives her the vaguest, most careful of shakes. ] -like spirits haunting the eaves before a shrine is cleansed for the year? The safest place to hide is when something holy is weakened. [ Something he's more familiar with than he would like to be, really.

The thought of someone purposefully putting curses in the haniwa, however, makes him set the haniwa down like he's handling something combustible. Fun and games with the kawaniwa are over now. ] I thought they must have been lonely, or trying to communicate...I've had weird dreams about them, and then we found this one nearby. [ Granted, he has nightmares and delusions regularly, so it's a bit harder for him to realize it's something to uh, be concerned about? ]