Tsunan's Ibahachi. And the real Nakajina Nobori's Hijikata Toshizou, my treasure!Kaoru: No thanks.(Tae turns to stone.)Tae (thinking): No thanks. My t...reasures, no thanks.(Yahiko is running home.)Megumi: Yahiko?! Didn't you go to Kyoto? Or did they leave you home alone?Yahiko: What are you talking about? Kaoru's still at the dojo.Megumi: What... (Tsubame places a tray of food before Kaoru.)Tsubame: I know it's not very good, but it's not good for you not to eat.Kaoru: No thanks.Tae: How can you. It spread back just far enough that our bloodlines and genetic inheritance still work, maybe a century or so in the case of the oldest dead people who needed to have been of the other gender for their living children to have still been born of them and the still-living other parent. The other changes in our personal pasts, the ones that make those pasts more comfortably match our current genders, have mostly been largely cosmetic. For instance, I used to be in my high school football team.. I believe that I think best when I’m upon my feet but this wasn’t the time to prove it. I returned to the Silver Fox and paid the tapster a silver to hire a private room upstairs for the evening and be seen heading up into it. This tavern was one of my usual drinking and gaming places and I knew that I could trust (within reason) the host and owner. A few minutes later he then secretly let me down into the back alley with the quiet aid of a rope ladder. If anyone asked about me, the tapster. There were a few others who helped her scavenge, but she was the one everyone relied on, so she couldn’t allow them to find out she was wounded.Foraging for food, ignoring pain, fighting for survival, it was a life she was used to.She reached into her pocket and pulled out a bottle of pain killers, something she had found earlier and decided to keep for herself for moments like these. She took some pills and walked away. She needed sleep. In the freezer, she found her bed, made of cushions cut.