[Day 7 - Evening - Closed] Family Dinner

"My, we'll be quite a large group when the annual family picnic happens," she says, smiling at the idea. All six of them meeting every spring. "The twins will have to double the usual preparations."

Hisui smiles too, but thinks about death. The end of things. She ponders her own and that of Fuyuko's, aware that it will happen. She ponders what would come after it, of the preparations she has made. She ponders the changes she made to her last will and testament, passing on what she has built to her children.

"I'm going to need to change my will again to account for you, Uetani-san," she comments before a bit of the plum wine and pours out a glass for her Crane wife. "Or should I wait until I know if you're Kakita Uetani or Doji Uetani?"

She takes a sip of her drink. She wonders what she would have suggested, had Fuyuko asked her. Not that the Crane bothered to ask for suggestions at all, much to the Unicorn's surprise. Perhaps something relevant to Uetani's nature and circumstances, something involving the unique connection the Kakita had to her sister's spirit. Or perhaps something symbolic of the adoption being a new beginning for Uetani, for the family.

Still, Uetani was Fuyuko's daughter first and foremost, so she puts the idea aside. Her eyes dart from Fuyuko to Uetani. "Winter, as parent, to spring, the child. Haru is a lovely name. Poetic, even," she says. "It was my name before my gempukku, in fact."

"Well, as long as you don't decide Doji Hisui should be your name, that should be fine," the Unicorn says in jest. She gives Fuyuko a brief, sly glance. "After all, I might have that name one day. Even if Utaku women never marry out."