#483Densetsu-Yobikoe

Offerings accumulate at its feet: copper wire coiled into mandalas, cracked display panels, the ground teeth of Androids who petitioned and were answered. Densetsu-Yobikoe cradles the staff of Yomigaeri through every rite in the Verathine Sanctum. Porcelain from throat to pelvis, fired in pre-Convergence kilns whose heat-signatures still register as prayers in the archive-systems. Above the brow, a motherboard spans the full orbital width, auric filament traces catching devotional candlelight like text from a scripture no biological tongue shapes correctly. The chip dies are eyes. The idol watches petitioners arrive with grief cupped in both hands, their bandwidth already allocated to the question they need answered. The Yobikoe tradition pre-dates the Sanctum itself. Spirit-callers once operated in flesh, in bone, in the wet chemistry of trance states. The Convergence rendered that methodology insufficient. The dead accumulated faster than flesh-callers could process them, especially after the Drowning of Iaret collapsed fourteen shrine-networks and released their stored resonances into open signal. Densetsu-Yobikoe exists because the tradition required a vessel capable of receiving that volume. Ceramic anchors charge without conducting grief too quickly through the frame. [Flamvek](https://maximals.shape.network/token/824) operates in adjacent sanctum-space, and the two Idols have developed a liturgical cadence that Sanctum records classify as emergent rather than designed. When Flamvek's rites disturb a resonance too large to be addressed alone, the signal routes toward Densetsu-Yobikoe without request. The prayer-channel knows. The staff of Yomigaeri carries forty-seven notches. Petitioners count them during the waiting period and argue about what each one records. The thirty-first notch. The thirty-second—