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There was something about this boy she truly liked. What she couldn't say. Perhaps it was his innocence, or his manners, or his sympathetic ways. Likely it was a combination of all these things. While Saul was not her age, younger than she was, she had never really had anyone as a playmate when she had been younger. There were no brothers or sisters, not even cousins, and of course playing with the children of the servants or villagers was completely out of the question. It was somehow comforting, being in the company of someone so new to the world and looked around with such bright eyes that had not yet been dimmed by the cruelties of the world. Tsukiko really like that about the boy. She nodded her head softly in response to his words. Her automatic assumption was that he intended his help to go beyond the boundaries of this land the shores of this country. Who would wish to stay here when they had the chance to see Japan? It was a perfectly logical conclusion to her.
Tsukiko felt that she had given a perfectly adequate answer to Saul's question. True, probably not the answer he had expected, but she had told him that she knew how to lead. That was an invaluable skill, not everyone had the strength or will or the character to lead. You couldn't throw a common craftsman on a throne and expect a kingdom to run smoothly. Some may have it in them, but many did not. She did. It was in her blood and in her upbringing. She was a Shimazu, and they were nobility. His further question on the matter made the smile fade from her face and she looked at him with a somewhat critical eye. There was no malice in Saul's face, but she couldn't help but feel affronted by the query. "Things are very different where I am from. I was never expected to do such things." The Japanese fey would not say that she could not do them. With who she was, it would have been shameful if she had wished to hunt.
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