Kyoko huffed, blowing her bangs up into the air. "Oh well, I guess at least now I can bathe and eat." She looked up just as her mother entered the room.
"Kyoko, let me see your feet. Toya said you were hurt while running away from a monster." Her mother tenderly lifted one foot up to inspect it then the other. She glanced at Kyoko with a startled expression. "I’m going to go get the first aid kit and some food. I’ll be right back."
Before her mother left the room, Kyoko asked. "Mom, where did Toya go?"
Without turning around, her mother answered, "He said don't worry. He will be back soon."
Kyoko lifted her eyebrows thinking, ‘well… at least Toya didn't tell her mother just who that monster was’.
*****
Hyakuhei sat comfortably on the mountain of furs piled on the stone floor of the c
