[It's all right. Makie volunteers the information because she knows it will lead to questioning. She lives here. With the topic of vengeance openly on the table, it feels right to at least tell Saori about some things.]

Tachibana is my mother's name. When I was very young, she was the wife of a respected samurai, mother to the heir of a swordschool with famed talent. [A son. This doens't really need pointing out.] But my father cast her out when I was ten years old.