> "Thank you, Mistress. I suppose the most important message to deliver, though, should go to you, as well as probably everyone else. It may have been preserved by the hakutaku, or it may not have been. I cannot say for sure"
> Frown a bit.
> "The very first time I was pulled into the future, I made my way back here, only to find a mostly-empty field, disrupted by the occasional ruins. It would seem a fire broke out some time after my disappearance, and was not caught in time to save our home."