I wasted little time getting my modesty garments and letting my ladies do the same. Tsukimine could technically take her love to the single s*x baths, but it seemed that she wanted to spend time with all of us as well. It seemed that the islanders were as much her people as those from her own lands, bonds stronger than those she had formed with myself and those in the court having formed with them in a short time. Shared culture, food, and language was the answer for loneliness where lost and alone in a foreign land it would seem. The women who helped take off the gown I had been trialing seemed to have no shortage of questions, asking me things that I had never even considered about a gown. Their willingness to be thorough would have been appreciated any other time. Right now I just wan

