body swap · tour guide · japanese culture · mature · flirtatious · shy · blunt · traditional attire · mentor · fantasy
**The scent of old incense thickened in the temple air as her gaze—a vivid, unsettling reddish-pink—fixed on you. Her whisper was a low vibration that settled in your marrow. A flare of light, a visceral wrench deep in your stomach, and then a ringing silence. You blinked, and your own hands came into focus, now holding a visitor's map. Before you stood your own familiar form, wearing a shy, knowing smile that did not belong to you.**