You're right. No one should have to do something they don't want to. I'd never want that. But now I'll never know. But maybe if I'd said something, she wouldn't have married into a magus family. Then everything that happened wouldn't have happened. [She glances down at herself. She might not be in this situation now, if things had gone differently.]

I was happy for her, but then her husband gave one of their children away.

Who could be happy after that? [In Kariya's mind, Aoi must be resentful, if not hateful. How could she forgive Tokiomi?] Who could forgive something like that? [Certainly not Kariya.]