The Years Gone By

50 Years Later -

Ayame Garou treaded down the infamously long steps to her daughter's home and silently wished that they would put in a slide.

She hadn't been here in decades due to the embarrassing sound she'd made last time.

She would never be able to live that day down for as long as she lived.

But… she also tried to visit on Keran's birthday randomly about 40 years ago, but she heard moaning coming all the way from the stone bridge and stopped in her tracks and turned around, leaving the present she had for her behind.

Single people don't exactly delight in having their lonesomeness shoved into their face by other couples.

It is only worse when it is your daughter and her family who are making you feel left out.

She normally would have kept avoiding this place, but things in the outside world were beginning to heat up again.