I offer you this

Fuji settled herself as Tori began to address them, her shock just only evident in a single blink of her honey yellow eyes. She didn't have the same hurt her brothers had. Taking much after her mother, she hadn't really been left to her own devices long enough to ponder the mans absence, burying herself in her studies of healing and sword art. Their hurt was palpable, but she had to agree with Usagi. It was a great honour.

She did hold some pride in her mother's name too, but the woman would soon leave them, as their father had to care for Erik and Morganna away from the bamboo, and perhaps shedding the name she was born with would help her come into her own and forge a closer connection with the newest lives born into the bamboo. “I too, accept your offer.” She dipped her head respectfully, a strange feeling of unexpected security coming with her words. Perhaps this was really where she was meant to be all along?

“Speech”