"When this is all over we will have to be neighbours somewhere. You can't go far from me because of the swords. We can keep an eye on each other like family do."
Maiko followed him and felt lighter. She was her own person again and not attached to an unloving family legacy. She hummed quietly to herself.
Maiko hurled the torch into the blazing house and stood back to watch it burn. She grinned and hugged Koza's arm. "It's the end of the past and the beginning of the future starts here and now."
Maiko took the torch and began to set things alight. "Come on! This is really fun. Goodbye home I never knew!"
"Well its not as if they are going to do anything is it?" Maiko started to laugh. "You need to be free of the past Koza and this might be the answer."
"That sounds wonderful. I want to do something that would normally be frowned upon. I have spent all my life being good so now I can rebel at last."
"Well they might just go for it. Lets torch the house so it will be gone. We can sell the land and move somewhere we want to go."
"A story of a fictional mother who loses a child that she actually cares about and her motherly concern for her remaining child. Shall we publish it as comedy?"
Raise thou a tankard and quaff the contents? Thou shalt not as this be against the rules. Thou shalt suffer!
"Thank you. It should be an interesting read. I can't wait to find out what it says. The chances are it will be total fabrication and therefore laughable."
"That sounds like fun. You will always be my brother and even if you don't have the Ishida name you will always be noble in spirit. It's nice to have family. Don't burn mother's journal. I would love to read her best fiction."
"I never had it. I am just Maiko. I don't have a second name as I was told I never deserved one. I have stayed like that to remind myself how cruel life can be to the helpless."
"Neither of them cared. It seems that I was useless to them and so expendable. What sort of parents treat a helpless child like that?"
"They dumped me on a couple. They could have found me at any time. I'm sorry but I don't believe it. I know that my so called adoptive family never moved. I don't believe a word in that book. Did she feel sorry for herself then? At least your father was honest in his not wanting me."
"Lets go on and get this over with. I just want this to finish so we can walk away. I prefer the fighting to this."
"Well, it's probably about you. There won't be anything about me as they had already abandoned me....I didn't matter anymore."
Gharanth ran to her and hugged her, freed at last from the spell. "You are my brave lady." He kissed her gently, then dropped to his knees, sobbing.
"What's the book about? I'd rather you looked, you did live here. Why do I feel like trashing this room?"
ooc: No problem but I have to go soon.
"Is this too painful for you? I have no emotions as I lived a different life. I have found something interesting though. The floorboards are different over here as if they were laid later."
