> Smile a small smile.
> "Forgive my tardiness, Sage Yakumo. Assuming you are not already aware of everything, let us say that I had some important family matters to attend to in Makai."
>"Ah, yes, you did ask to be dropped off there," says Ran. "Well, it is no matter."
>She looks to Euphemia. "So, Lady Hirukazu, I assume that you broadly understand what we're going to be doing here?"
>The hakutaku nods. "Your plan is to try to have Sakuya change the past?"
>"Just so," says Ran. "In particular, we would like you devour as much of Sakuya's history as you from after the accident and before she returned to us. Thus, when we send her back, there should be no place to go but before the whole incident occurred. Just long enough for her to get back."
>"That sounds complicated, to say the least," Euphemia says, frowning. "It will cause no end of headaches trying to reconcile all of this to history."
>"I imagine so!" says Ran with a little smile. "But I have utmost faith in you and your predecessors to set it to rights."
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