Hideaway Strath hokiichi

oh, just... just satsu, is fine.
as much as she enjoys hearing her full name, it is something that has always been reserved for family. she has no family now. to hear it from another's lips feels wrong to her somehow. a trick of her sorrow.

this man, vein, is full of compliments for her. soon satsu's face is flushed.
thank you--
what brings you to a pack like the saints of the dying light?
oh, he is quite forward with his speech.

fate, i suppose. murmurs satsu. kyn-dono found me when i needed help, and in time i came to ask for it.
she did not want to speak of the deeper reasons for her arrival; the loss of family and han, to be precise. this was a wound that would not heal.
have you served the daimyo long?