She can't allow herself to believe that. Not yet. That a doctor could help her doesn't sound so farfetched in a place like this. She should have thought of that, shouldn't she? And yet, Makie is reluctant to go. It is oddly attractive, the idea of just quietly letting the disease take its course. She doesn't examine that too closely. There's no need.
What eventually gets to her is the smile, and the hand Saori offers. Makie might have certain beliefs about the course of her life, but if a Japanese goddess is saying it's all right, then maybe...
She lowers the bundle in her arms to set it quietly just inside the door, and prop her shamisen beside it. She'll return for the instrument later.]
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She can't allow herself to believe that. Not yet. That a doctor could help her doesn't sound so farfetched in a place like this. She should have thought of that, shouldn't she? And yet, Makie is reluctant to go. It is oddly attractive, the idea of just quietly letting the disease take its course. She doesn't examine that too closely. There's no need.
What eventually gets to her is the smile, and the hand Saori offers. Makie might have certain beliefs about the course of her life, but if a Japanese goddess is saying it's all right, then maybe...
She lowers the bundle in her arms to set it quietly just inside the door, and prop her shamisen beside it. She'll return for the instrument later.]
I'll go. I'm... I apologise for being foolish.