How Hime's servants had died, how her brother Severin had ousted her from the Kingdom and forced her into the lifestyle she led now, that tale was one of the few things Hime was uncomfortable recounting. It was just as well Kagura didn't ask, for she wouldn't have gotten an answer.

"Well, I'm certainly not human," she said with a smile and a chuckle. "No mortal man has eyes nor blood like mine."