Beatrice purses her lips, thinking. "I take it that you'd mainly consider the time I spent running one of these scenarios to be relevant, rather than my full thousand years, so I suppose I'll start from the end, yes?"
She hefts herself up to sit on a counter, eyeing the toast. She did come here for lunch, after all, and that looks like the beginnings of a nice bruschetta.
"To begin with, there's an island off the coast of Japan called Rokkenjima. There was but one family who lived there, in a tiny part of the island. The rest, the wilds, was mine."
"Once upon a time, I made a bargain with their patriarch, Kinzo Ushiromiya. Fabulous wealth that he would pay back to me at the end of his life," she continues. "When he neared the end of his life, his greedy children came to claim this wealth, and, well...I gave them a sporting chance, but they wound up serving as interest. Humans will do anything for money. I'll do anything to hold up a bargain."
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She hefts herself up to sit on a counter, eyeing the toast. She did come here for lunch, after all, and that looks like the beginnings of a nice bruschetta.
"To begin with, there's an island off the coast of Japan called Rokkenjima. There was but one family who lived there, in a tiny part of the island. The rest, the wilds, was mine."
"Once upon a time, I made a bargain with their patriarch, Kinzo Ushiromiya. Fabulous wealth that he would pay back to me at the end of his life," she continues. "When he neared the end of his life, his greedy children came to claim this wealth, and, well...I gave them a sporting chance, but they wound up serving as interest. Humans will do anything for money. I'll do anything to hold up a bargain."