It is a commonly known fact that most bears would advice you to put out smoking embers, because only you can prevent forest fires. However, Ami was smart to put the Thing in the Thing-Shaped-Hole, a basic key to solving the deepest riddles in life.

Suddenly, lights came to life in the room. Candles on candle sticks ignited spontaneously, and a couple behind the pattern-painted screen behind the altar did as well... This having a most curious effect, for the screen had reeds and bamboo sticks painted upon them, and perhaps it was a visual illusion, or just a trick, but it seemed like the inked reeds were moving to the soft touch of an equally painted-on breeze.

Then, the altar groaned, as altars tend to do. It groaned because there were stones moving beneath, and wood boards moving aside-- now, behind the bears, a new figure emerged from the ground. Carved in darker, sturdy wood, and bearing an almost caricaturesque image of two bears, blissfully married (in typical japanese garb no less.) On top of this figure was a scroll.

This was not the only thing that happened, though, for Ami felt her senses sharpen a little. She would notice this little by little, but she just heard better, saw better, and even felt the vibrations under her feet better. Not by much. Just mildly. (You have activated the incense of mild awareness.)