[Of course he didn't. Of course he didn't know, just like none of them knew about the things that were so basic to her world, didn't know about noh, about honor, about the proper way to receive food, about the appropriate addresses, about the gods of the mountain, about anything,

This is when a better person, or a more socially skilled person, might apologize- or at least accept with grace. She still doesn't trust him, a professed criminal, and yet she can hardly defy the lord she has sworn to and speak ill of someone he seemed to think we'll enough of.

Yet.]

Then mark me. No matter your intent, if your influence just doing it should ever bring harm upon my lord-

[Whether it intimidates him or not, her tone is beyond sincere when she leans down to be at his eye level, gaze steeled in determination.]

I shall kill you, and then myself.