It was hard to follow Roa in her kosode, but Setsuko managed well enough, and the reward was great: a grove of the largest flowers she'd ever seen, wide as one's hand, with colors from crimson red to snowy white, and most surprising, a pink so bright she couldn't look at it head-on.

"I-I've never seen such things before," she told Roa. "May--may I see one?"