[THEY'RE AT THE HOT SPRINGS and he is fully dressed, albeit differently than usual, and stands at the edge of the water where he's just dippin' in a foot to test the temperature.]
It's been a while since I've been to one of these...
I did, back in Tatarasuna, before I left to tour. They are easy enough to find in the country, but none quite so lovely as those. Have you been to any before?
I see... You have the chance to experience one properly now, at least. [A little encouraging nod! Yay hot springs. But he shakes his head at the question.]
My homeland is Inazuma. Tatarasuna is the village in which I got my start, though. Where is it that you're from?
[ her canon sure did not give a name for that place. ]
I lived most of my life there with my grandmother, looking out at Soot Island across the sea... My family used to live there, and I had a lot of questions, so one day I set out to see it for myself.
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It's been a while since I've been to one of these...
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Did you visit them often before?
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I did, back in Tatarasuna, before I left to tour. They are easy enough to find in the country, but none quite so lovely as those. Have you been to any before?
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[ because it was in the graveyard and kate didn't get there until late... ]
... Is "Tatarasuna" your homeland?
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I see... You have the chance to experience one properly now, at least. [A little encouraging nod! Yay hot springs. But he shakes his head at the question.]
My homeland is Inazuma. Tatarasuna is the village in which I got my start, though. Where is it that you're from?
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... A place called Soot Island. There's a manor there called the Shadows House. That's... where I live now.
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Soot Island... [He looks at her like well that checks I suppose.] Where was it that you lived before?
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[ her canon sure did not give a name for that place. ]
I lived most of my life there with my grandmother, looking out at Soot Island across the sea... My family used to live there, and I had a lot of questions, so one day I set out to see it for myself.
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Oh, I see. Did you like it so much that you ended up staying?
[Well.]
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That place is a prison.
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...So you've become trapped there?
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Will you be going back there once you're out of this place?
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Do you have anything that will help you to accomplish that goal...?
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[ she says, and then there's some soot that rises from her head. ]
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Is it a troubling notion for you?
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He just gives her a quietly sad and sympathetic look.]
I am very sorry to hear that...