233 A New Perspective

Yukiko then talked about her life in the village and that seemed to have elevated her mood reminiscing the happy past. She told how they were the wild kids in the village no one could control. Apparently people called her a 'shrewd' that no man in their right mind would marry.

She also told her how she got lost in the mountains one day after trying to find herbs and forgetting the time and her way back. It started to snow heavily that night and she was scared and despaired and with the sounds of the wild animals intensifying, she thought she'd die there and everyone would forget her as she hugged herself to help herself warm up in that cold snowy night that made her shudder and almost lose consciousness.