” Yoshi asked.“Sure your kitchen is which way?” Hana asked me. I pointed in the direction. I just couldn’t speak. All that was in my head were...Yoshi’s words ‘It’s my fault you had to marry Hiro’ echoing around my head.When Hana left Yoshi who had not left his knees told us the truth. Yoshi got into debt gambling. It seemed that he owed an Yakuza boss money. He couldn’t pay at the time, but offered them a trade till he could pay them back. The boss’s son Hiro went to school with Amya. He offered. Finding that the 'happy' wasn't just something she managed in front of me on the rare times we spent together, but that she was, like I thought before, even-tempered and always happy.Our front yard sessions in the evening changed up slightly as I got a bit more adventurous with my cast and crutches and we made our way up and down the street, stopping to talk with the neighbors, in general just getting on with life.Other part of getting on with life was that some of my co-workers made a point of. She would see if a smithy would be able to salvage the metals.She slowly and painfully made her way to the nearest mess hall and had a real dinner for the first time in weeks. She found she couldn't eat as much as she would have liked, but she did eat. While eating, she noticed that she was being observed by a hooded figure in one corner of the room. She knew she was not in any condition to fight, so she decided to ignore the watcher for now. When she returned to her room, she found her work. He looked like he was hoping for a chance to use it.They stayed in the forest and circled the town, continuing on the far side. Kat tried to stick to harder ground and the occasional stream bed, in order to minimize any tracks they would leave behind. The daily rain showers that afternoon helped to wipe out what tracks they did make.They were traveling through some pretty rough terrain and that raised another concern in Kat's mind. The power cells for the mule weren't going to last forever..