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It just hit me. Remember Rin is interested in the "guiding fire" of incense for O-bon, and asks "spirits come back?" and then walks out to look up at the sky? That was a clear set-up for the message from her mother Aki. I had never connected the 2 although it is very obvious in retrospect. Of course it is not clear that Rin, or anyone "heard" Aki's message, within the story context, perhaps it was mainly for us readers.
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