"I wasn't the old one to lose parents there. Um, Mika, one of the shrine maidens also lost her mother so." he explaining, somehow smiling still. "I mean, I was crying my eyes out for weeks but, eventually the pain went away. Eventually you figure you have to keep living. I think I've done just fine." Saneyuki shrugged. "It's a different life, that's for sure. I've been to the city few times and I always feel so out of place there. Pretty claustrophobic. I can't even imaging how the life would be in a real, big city."
"Oh, what were people arguing a lot?" he asked Moriko, turning to look at her.
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