[If only the girl knew. Yotsuyu, thoughtful? Yotsuyu, kind? It is to laugh. And yet, it does seem as if the woman is making a concerted effort, and for once, not thinking of herself. Or not only of herself.

Maybe these things happen, when the eyes of her countrymen, ever judging, are not upon her. Maybe. And yet, at the girl's words, her expression darkens slightly. Not anger, at the moment, but confusion.]

I was not the only one, then. Ancestors be thanked...I suppose. [Not that Yotsuyu is precisely grateful to be alive. She's still waiting for the other shoe to drop.] But why should you think something like this might happen to you? I do not understand. Though it is strange. I give you that. I certainly had no expectation of waking up, much less in a place like this.

[If she weren't too jaded to be capable of wonder, Yotsuyu might even be amazed at this sort of thing. Oh, certainly the Garlean Empire had airships, but not airships like this one...]