Have the daughter of a samurai? (And wife of a sorta-samurai?)

[willing_sheath]

[Stands to the side... just watching.]

This is not how I pictured the afterlife...

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[all_heart_sano]

A bunch of people have said so already, but I'm pretty sure this isn't the afterlife. I'm not dead...

[willing_sheath]

Perhaps I am the anomaly then...

[all_heart_sano]

Maybe so... Um, the place I was in before, there were other people who'd died. And gods and shinigami and things like that... So maybe you're not alone, either...

[willing_sheath]

Is that so?

...

Perhaps...

[all_heart_sano]

I'm sure it's just a matter of finding others who are the same! They've got to be around somewhere, right?

[willing_sheath]

[Gives a small nod.]

[all_heart_sano]

I'm sorry, I didn't introduce myself, did I? I'm Harada Sanosuke. You are?

[willing_sheath]

Himura Tomoe. Douzo yoroshiku, Harada-san. [Makes a slight bow.]

[all_heart_sano]

[Bows in return] Yoroshiku onegaishimasu, Himura-san. Where did you come from?

[willing_sheath]

...

Otsu.

[all_heart_sano]

Oh, near Kyoto? I've passed by there a few times...

[willing_sheath]

Is that so...?

Where are you from, Harada-san?

[all_heart_sano]

Matsuyama, on Shikoku. I studied at a dojo in Osaka when I was younger, and then took up with the friends I have now when they lived in Edo... we all live in Kyoto, these days. So I guess you could say I've been around a bit...

[willing_sheath]

[Nods at the story.]

...

I was raised in Edo.

[all_heart_sano]

[He's not quite sure how to handle talking to such a...quiet person. There are very few quiet people in his group of friends, and the ones he's closest to are anything but.]

Did you like it there?

[willing_sheath]

[She doesn't mean anything by it... she just... doesn't emote very well...]

[Gives a small nod.]

It was quieter than Kyoto... I was there for a while... before I went to Otsu...