“But why should it affright her?”
“Because she has never seen one before.”
“Never seen a mirror before?”
“No. It is only of late years that they have come to Sendai, my son.”
“Why, the mirror is as old as the nation.”
“Oh, son, but not for general use. Until recent years they were regarded as things of mystery, and were very precious and priceless.”
“Yet as a child I had often seen my father’s mirror. Our house contains one, does it not?”
“True; but it is locked away in our secret panel.”
“But why?”
Aoi hesitated.