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Tsukiko knew that no one around here would understand the meaning of the Japanese honorifics that were commonplace to her. She had thought about trying to stop using them, but they were simple habit to her. It had been difficult enough to come to grips with the fact that given names and not surnames were the ones that people in this hemisphere used to introduce and refer to themselves. Even if it pointed her out as more of an outsider and the canines here did not understand the meaning, she would not give up that part of where she was from. The Shimazu daughter had given up so much of her culture already that she was unwilling to part with the small few things that she could still hold. Plus no one here seemed bothered by her way of addressing them, even if they did not understand it.
Nayru's diction was superb, and Tsukiko thought she had discovered at least part of what it was that set this girl apart from the others that she had met: she acted and spoke with more polite reserve. Nayru seemed more like someone that she could easily meet in Japan (aside from her lack of clothing) than anyone else that she had met since coming here. Her culture was not a particularly emotive or open one, while this one seemed much more the opposite. So while some may have not felt as welcomed by the two toned female, Tsukiko actually felt much more comfortable speaking to her. "It is a pleasure to meet you as well, Nayru-san," she said, a soft smile of her own forming on her lips. "It is nice here. Very different than what I am accustomed to, but it is not unpleasant." Her own personal home was small instead of large, and the way packs were structured here was drastically different than the provinces of Japan were. Still, Tsukiko could find no outright faults to complain of. "Yes, I did. Over an ocean and around this continent." There were not many places that were quite so far from her home as this land.
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