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“If you’re so concerned about losing your temper at such an event, why not practice?”
“Practice what , exactly? I have no way of knowing who will be there, nor who would speak to me, nor what they would say! Of course I’m concerned about losing my temper but just saying ‘practice’ does nothing to aid me Kamui - I’d have thought you most of all would understand that.” Lea all but growled as she ran her hands through her hair, tensing her fingers so as to resist the urge to tear her locks out.
Five days. She had five days until she would return to Kugane as a master craftsman of her own right and would be forced to acknowledge her ties to her family and their long history of carpentry - regardless of the desires from either side.