[Saori snorts at the thought. The tradition of war, the ritualization of it, that was something that'd always somewhat amused her for one reason or another. Granted the time she'd been a child, her life as mortal, had been during a wilder era. It was simply expected for nobility to learn to defend themselves, and then there was the matter of gempukku.]

Strange to think how much a few centuries can change a society, isn't it? I wasn't much older than you when I changed, but it sounds as though the life I had was so very different.