[Was… that a very accurate map, or did this man simply do things so confidently that she could believe so? For all her efforts, Hayame had only seen maps of the whole country a few times in her life, usually over her stable master’s shoulder or between other men… It looks mostly the same? But the province itself- That she knew better.

So this man was not lying about that part, at the very least, no matter how strange he seemed in her eyes. Eye.]

I do not know those names… Emperor Go-Yozei reigns in the capital…

[More dressing for the act of a warrior worth purchasing, who suddenly feels… something, murmuring in follow-up,]

But the winters are indeed cold, for humans…

[The strange elation of a potential comrade melts into the reality of their differences, of realizing… she could be found for a fraud, a pretender to the throne of respectability… and the honorific sounds so foreign and strange when attached to her own name that she cannot help but add again,]

- I said just “Hayame”.