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Is this the reincarnation that they talk about in books?

I was busy admiring myself in the mirror until I tripped on my silken night clothing and pushed some stuff off the vanity table.

Ugh!

Oh well, I may have gotten prettier, but my chronic clumsiness has been inherited.

I stood up quickly. If the maid saw me in this state...

"Lady Esmeray?!"

She was calling me Esmeray since I woke up in this world. I guess that's the name of the person I'm in. Or I am.

I picked up some make up with fancy designs and put them back on the table. Some makeup powder poured on something that was heavy and rectangular shaped.

I dusted it off and picked it up.

It was a fancy book with golden sides and a canine animal with red jewels for eyes. What ever was in this book must be interesting.

I tried opening the book but it wouldn't budge.

Ugh! You damned book! Open up! You prettiness is spiking my curiosity!

I brought the book up to my face and scowled into the beady, gem eyes of the canine.

The eyes glowed up and I threw the book.

Ahhhh! What is that?!

It flipped open. I walked over to it and picked it up.

Oh, a secret password, good for protecting from snoops.

Like me.

Well, it doesn't count. I'm technically Esmeray.

I flipped to a page and for a split second I didn't understand the language, but soon, I understood it like I grew up with it.

Must be the kinks of reincarnation.

I sat down on the bed, and started to read.

^^^^^^^^^^^

After 20 minutes I was done. It was a long book - almost like a novel (obviously a diary). It was Esmeray's life from almost the beginning till now.

And it was a lot to process.

First of all, me thinking I'm human, I am disappointed.

I am not.

I am something called a kitsune.

From Esmeray's diary, my family and me, we're the last of our kind.

The current emperor's father, saw a threat in the kitsunes. They and humans got well together till that time.

Kitsunes were half fox, half human creatures, who had magic and powers, depending what clan or house they were from.

Kitsunes were worshipped till that period of a treaty and peace.

But people who have power want to keep that power. The emperor saw the kitsunes as a threat to his throne.

So he portrayed them as witches and sly creatures, dividers of peace. Riots were held and kitsunes killed.

Esmeray's family was a royal kitsune pack. But now, are the last pack.

Or so Esmeray thought. She thought that if he'd family could hide their ears and tails this long others could do it too.

Esmeray wanted to bring back kitsunes and prove to humans that they were not a threat.

But she had to have influence.

So she planned.

To become an imperial concubine of the current emperor.