But Bon will turn and walk away after yelling at Rin one more time.]
FINE!
[And she goes off to stew in her anger and be grumpy for the rest of the night.
Soon enough, 'tomorrow' is 'today,' and everyone is back to treating the sick. Bon is working at the inn today too, instead of being tied up with family things for a good part of the day. She is dressed like a boy again, and she makes no effort to correct anyone when they call her a guy.
But, if Rin is watching, she does get treated differently. Some of the Kyoto exorcists (most notably the Shimas and some of the other big families from the area) talk to her differently. Never rudely, of course, just differently.
And sometimes, without meaning to, they ask Koneko, or occasionally Shima, for stuff involving all three of them. But never Bon, it's always one of the other two. Bon only ever gets asked to do stuff when it is her specifically.
There are also whispers that can be heard, said by people who think nobody can hear them but aren't taking a demon's hearing capabilities into account. Whispers about Bon, and about 'coming of age soon'. Tensions are high not only because of the sickness, but because of something else too. Something that is probably the source of a lot of Bon's problems.
Bon herself just works, not complaining at all. Because nobody is treating her terribly, just different. And she's had to live with it all her life, so she just frowns and bears it, while telling herself that she only has three more years to go before it's all over.]
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But Bon will turn and walk away after yelling at Rin one more time.]
FINE!
[And she goes off to stew in her anger and be grumpy for the rest of the night.
Soon enough, 'tomorrow' is 'today,' and everyone is back to treating the sick. Bon is working at the inn today too, instead of being tied up with family things for a good part of the day. She is dressed like a boy again, and she makes no effort to correct anyone when they call her a guy.
But, if Rin is watching, she does get treated differently. Some of the Kyoto exorcists (most notably the Shimas and some of the other big families from the area) talk to her differently. Never rudely, of course, just differently.
And sometimes, without meaning to, they ask Koneko, or occasionally Shima, for stuff involving all three of them. But never Bon, it's always one of the other two. Bon only ever gets asked to do stuff when it is her specifically.
There are also whispers that can be heard, said by people who think nobody can hear them but aren't taking a demon's hearing capabilities into account. Whispers about Bon, and about 'coming of age soon'. Tensions are high not only because of the sickness, but because of something else too. Something that is probably the source of a lot of Bon's problems.
Bon herself just works, not complaining at all. Because nobody is treating her terribly, just different. And she's had to live with it all her life, so she just frowns and bears it, while telling herself that she only has three more years to go before it's all over.]