That is not what this lifestyle is all about. In order to serve your Master, you need to trust and respect him not fear him at all."Duke looked at her...and asked, "Do you understand?"Amber still looking up at him, began to relax and nodded saying, "Yes Master I understand."Duke looked at her and smiled saying, "Good. Now with that in mind, do you wish to continue training with me?"Amber looked up at him seeing his smile and said, "Yes Master. I do."Duke nodded and said, "Now in the lifestyle of. . It's a natural reaction to seeing all this blood. (thinking) For a moment I wasn't sure if I should silence her or not--No. I forgot even that... (aloud) But what to do about this place? I can't leave her here to give evidence. And who knows what could happen to a woman alone in Kyoto at night. Guess I have no choice.(He picks her up to carry her home.)Kenshin (thinking): Her perfume... That must be white plum scent... (He pauses.)Kenshin: Not good. I must be going crazy... (At the Ohagi. In her latest re-incarnation she was a gallery, crafts-person owner and was challenging the establishment with her unorthodox approaches to marketing and publicity. I considered myself somewhat of a maverick, an iconoclast, in some other areas of my non-raping and murdering life and I liked and respected her approach right from the start. Here was a woman who would tell the ruling classes and the chattering masses to go fuck themselves and had the credentials to pull it off and. She wore a man’s loose blouse and leggings, and she was hanging a leather apron over the back of a chair when Corec entered. There were heavy steel bands around her wrists.“Welcome to Aencyr, traveler,” she said in trade tongue. “Corec Tarwen, if I’m pronouncing it correctly?”“Yes, that’s right.” He’d included his name in the note he’d sent her.“And I am Hildra.” She didn’t mention any titles. “Thank you for coming. I’m happy to compensate you for your time.”“I’m more interested in learning why.