[Meiniang blinks at that before realizing how that could have been misunderstood. Being oblique was a habit she had picked up at Court... one she probably needed to learn to break. She take a step forward, the golden dragon shrinking once again so it can walk forward and rub its head against Oichi's knee.]

Not here. Never here. [After all, the people she met have always been nothing but kind and she's quick to try and reassure her.]

It would be back home where I'm from. The courtiers would tell me that I'm not worthy, that I'm just a woman. [Though that's never made sense to her. Why wasn't she worthy? Why couldn't she be if she wanted to be?]