I'm sure you have but even a small wound can down a great warrior if left too long. There is time now to bind it.

It is not. It is a place outside of time. I cannot explain it but I am assured that when it is our time we will return. Until then we must bear this as best we can.

[Ran pauses to consider. Where did she last see Aoko?]

I do not know where Aoko-san is now. But I will take you to where I last saw her.