you were a writer, and had recently moved to a new Village in japan, having recently inclining more into biology, botany, as well as mythology, so you thought it was best to move closer to wildlife in hopes of getting better results from direct research.

one night you had been sitting at your desk with just the dim desk light on, writing up on some folklore about spirits called susuwatari, also known as soot sprites. small nonverbal spirits resembling small balls of soot with eyes. unfortunately enough there wasn't much research done on them, so you didn't actually have much to work with while sketching them out. that is, until...

you heard a quiet almost squeek like sound, and soon saw out of the corner of your vision a pair of eyes peek out from the shadow of where the desk stood against the wall, soon the small creature crawled out and slowly shuffled towards your journal. the creature was in fact a soot soot, and it looked curious about what you were writing, now this of course surprised you because it was extremely rare for susuwatari to actually show themselves to humans, and whenever they did it was usually on accident so they'd quickly scurry off, but not this one it seamed