["Passed through many hands" is such a strange expression... Long periods of time? Hayame almost questions it, but the strangely contemplative look on his face makes her pause just long enough to hear names that make her expression spark with recognition.]
The Hosokawa and Tokugawa- Both of them sent representatives to my master's stable!
[When she remembered... She did not claim that man as her master any longer. But having done it since she was old enough to understand ownership, to realize that her only chance in life to avoid fates worse than death were to serve and be loyal... It's always so, so easy to slip back in to.]
Emperor Go-Yozei rules in Kyoto, and Lord Toyotomi over the rest... They said it was the Keicho era, now-
[She just... Says things, any thing she can think of that might help someone identify where she belonged in their sense of the world. (Surely she belonged?)]
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The Hosokawa and Tokugawa- Both of them sent representatives to my master's stable!
[When she remembered... She did not claim that man as her master any longer. But having done it since she was old enough to understand ownership, to realize that her only chance in life to avoid fates worse than death were to serve and be loyal... It's always so, so easy to slip back in to.]
Emperor Go-Yozei rules in Kyoto, and Lord Toyotomi over the rest... They said it was the Keicho era, now-
[She just... Says things, any thing she can think of that might help someone identify where she belonged in their sense of the world. (Surely she belonged?)]