folding fan from out of her heavily embroidered spring green silk obi, nearly smacking her new guest with it by accident. With a flick of her wrist she snapped it open to hide her displeasure, and only her silvery eyes were shown.

"Horrible manners they have!"

"Absolutely not! My appearance is a unique style I developed over the years and I will not change it just because of a bunch of gossiping fishwives!"

Hmph.

Her tone indicated that she highly offended with the hanamachi as a whole. Mari whipped her lacquered --