Luneshale Pass fifty-fourth

Melody had no taste for humor. Instead she regarded Senmut with an expression bordering on sadness.

I thought I would find Makono, She admitted after a moment, eyes finding the sky as they often did. I hoped I would. But the Gods led me to Ashikaga instead. And now...

She didn't know. Melody trailed off, letting the words she could not speak hang in the air between them. Her loyalty had once been to Makono; now it felt she had nowhere to place it but in Ashikaga, whose blue eyes she felt on her always, even now.