[Moon 11, Aftdeck, Morning] Training and stuff...

[Shiba Naomi]

"It's a rather rocky coast, yes..."
She blushed a bit at Furaito's comment. "Well, uhm, that depends on my husband. I don't know what he will expect of me, but if I do well, I could probably persuade him otherwise..." her voice trailed off as she listened to them gossip.

"To a gaijin prince? My, that's... certainly novel. Would Moshi-sama really do such a thing?" She glanced between them, wondering how reliable Cook's stories were indeed.

[Volsung]

Furaito snorted. "I wouldn't let my husband tell me what to do. I'm an ashigaru. Always will be." She nodded, as though that was that.

Happy chuckled. "Oh hai, we all know who would wear the hakama in any marriage you wrangle." Then he looked back to the Shiba. "Oh hai. She's got orders to do it. They say Ivory Kingdoms people like their women like they like their pepper, spicy. And it doesn't get much spicier than Moshi-sama."

[Shiba Naomi]

Naomi chuckled at Furaito's rather defiant display. Oh well... perhaps that was the difference between heimin and samurai. As a wife, her husband was her immediate lord, and she was supposed to obey him.
For a moment she imagined she was born a Moshi, or an Utaku, and could instead boss her husband around.

"I can imagine... but that's a rather strange order to give. To order someone to marry a gaijin?"

[Volsung]

Happy shrugged. "Lots of things Samurai do seem strange to me." He paused, then looked sheepish. "No offense Shiba-sama."

[Shiba Naomi]

"Ah, no offense taken, of course. I'm not surprised it seems that way... even I find many things we do strange, and I can't even imagine what I think is strange might look to you."

She did think that heimin also had some strange things about them, but she didn't feel the need to say it out loud.

"It must be very different for you to serve on an Imperial vessel alongside samurai though."

[Volsung]

"Arigato, Shiba-sama." Happy bowed, a bit thankful that she didn't take it personally.

Furaito spoke up again. "Not much really. We're used to serving on ships, so we get a bit more used to dealing with samurai than some. This is our first mission out with recruits though. That's different."