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Mar. 20th, 2010 01:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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[There's a long pause here, where she fidgits with her hands and looks down at her knees, at her fingers and her fingernails, avoiding eye contact. This is painful to start even a few years removed from the original event - getting stronger every day, but still raw and oozing and wet under where it's scabbed over. Nothing's hurting right now, of course, but there are... these little flutters of sensation that could so easily become pain. Later. Soon. Once they start digging around.]
So. [She swallows.] How... exactly... did you want me to start?
[There's a long pause here, where she fidgits with her hands and looks down at her knees, at her fingers and her fingernails, avoiding eye contact. This is painful to start even a few years removed from the original event - getting stronger every day, but still raw and oozing and wet under where it's scabbed over. Nothing's hurting right now, of course, but there are... these little flutters of sensation that could so easily become pain. Later. Soon. Once they start digging around.]
So. [She swallows.] How... exactly... did you want me to start?
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Date: 2010-03-20 05:53 am (UTC)So, when... um... I was just - [Pause.] My grandfather died peacefully. It seemed like things were okay. But we started hearing about this upstart sword school gaining power, going around and taking over dojo, killing the leaders and taking the students who wuold go with them under their wing, and putting the rest to the sword. My father was really worried about it... this group was called the Itto-ryu.
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Date: 2010-03-20 10:29 pm (UTC)[he relaxes in his seat a bit more, paying close attention.]
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Date: 2010-03-21 04:05 am (UTC)What did he do to your mother?
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Date: 2010-03-21 04:07 am (UTC)He didn't do anything. Exactly.
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Date: 2010-03-21 04:12 am (UTC)So I wandered around for a couple years after that. I'd decided I would kill all of them. Except then I realized I'd need help to do it, someone to back me up, and that was sort of how I ended up finding Manji.
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Date: 2010-03-21 04:22 am (UTC)He said I looked like his little sister.
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Date: 2010-03-21 04:30 am (UTC)I needed someone who was the best, because the Itto-ryu... those men who destroyed so many dojo... they were the best too. And Manji was definitely the best. [An awkward sort of shrug.] He's immortal.
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