[Her eyes linger on some of those unfortunately familiar papers and it nearly makes her heart stop. That, sadly, is something she hadn't considered; she herself had been spared any knowledge of the ochimizu, but... she had thought it because she was raised as his child, not because she was raised as his daughter.
She has fully believed that his son would have been spared involvement with the ochimizu in the same way.
Still, when Kaoru turns his attention to her, she tries to mask her discomfort with a polite smile. She's become practiced at it, and perhaps the distance that had been in Kaoru's eyes when he had been a Nagumo is present in her eyes now.]
The pleasure is all mine, Yukimura-san. [Her expression flickers, then, and she casts her eyes downward.] ...I fear the request that has brought me here today may put you in a bit of an awkward position. Please, if you feel it isn't something you are comfortable assisting me with, feel free to refuse it.
[Here it is, the secondary reason for her visit - the one that, if she can't get help with here, she'll most certainly be stopping at another doctor's for assistance with before returning to the Nagumo.]
My husband's family has become quite... insistent, that he and I continue the family line. [She keeps her gaze low.] The Yukimura-sensei I remember was a very kind man. I had hoped that he might assist me in procuring a medicine that would... prevent me from bearing a child for such an unkind family.
[She's never met the man who had pretended to be her father, not in this timeline... but if the timing is right, Kaoru won't be in contact with him to ever discover otherwise.]
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She has fully believed that his son would have been spared involvement with the ochimizu in the same way.
Still, when Kaoru turns his attention to her, she tries to mask her discomfort with a polite smile. She's become practiced at it, and perhaps the distance that had been in Kaoru's eyes when he had been a Nagumo is present in her eyes now.]
The pleasure is all mine, Yukimura-san. [Her expression flickers, then, and she casts her eyes downward.] ...I fear the request that has brought me here today may put you in a bit of an awkward position. Please, if you feel it isn't something you are comfortable assisting me with, feel free to refuse it.
[Here it is, the secondary reason for her visit - the one that, if she can't get help with here, she'll most certainly be stopping at another doctor's for assistance with before returning to the Nagumo.]
My husband's family has become quite... insistent, that he and I continue the family line. [She keeps her gaze low.] The Yukimura-sensei I remember was a very kind man. I had hoped that he might assist me in procuring a medicine that would... prevent me from bearing a child for such an unkind family.
[She's never met the man who had pretended to be her father, not in this timeline... but if the timing is right, Kaoru won't be in contact with him to ever discover otherwise.]