[It takes Saori a moment, actually, to really understand the implications of what Makie's said. When she'd been mortal, things were different. There's nearly three hundred years separating her "lifetime" and her friends, and she's not always the most knowledgeable of the intricacies of mortal culture. Her family had taught her the fighting arts as well as the womanly ones with the thought that she might choose the life of a onna-bugeisha instead of a courtier. She wouldn't have, and never had the choice, but that didn't really help her perspective here.

But then, clearly it had been shaming for the elder brother. And therefore shaming to the father. In her time, Saori muses, that would have earned Makie acclaim. But then, Japan's culture shifted with time...and as strange as it sounds it takes a few silent moments for the connection to click.]

Which...means you're skilled with a blade, but in your time...those traditions are dead. And he felt shame. And your father put you both out because of it.

[She's trying to piece together more than just a story...and her own stone is placed with equal distraction.]