Arriving in Toto

I arrived outside Toto today with Yuki and his escort. Here, we would eventually meet the people who would later be assigned to be mine and Yuki's bodyguards by Daichi, who surely knew just by looking at me that I was a person of importance. I should ask Debiru Kai later about how a foreign princess compares to a Daimyo of Kiga and try to find someone who can explain what union could lead to a human fathering a Dragonborn.
 
Speaking of those bodyguards, it seems the young Sasaki Sakura understands the greatness of the Yuan-ti race and our snakes, as she calls me Snake lady :).
She may one day prove herself worthy of feeding Nitla.

The little Jerry also shows promise, as despite failing his bodyguard duty by allowing my Aunty to be petrified, he understood the importance of bringing her home with him instead of leaving her "corpse" to potentially be consumed by Basilisk survivors.
 
Finally, we have Seto -who has so far shown no sign of being a good bodyguard, granted I can't blame him for not protecting Yuki properly in the White Dragon room as Daichi still hadn't assigned him the bodyguard duty.
 
Now that I think about it, what relationship does Aunty and- I think they address her as Lady Sumehime- have? And why did she slap me? She couldn't be blaming me for the failure of the mechanism in the White Dragon room. Does she fail to understand what an honor even receiving a drop of my blood is? And how would a lowly White Dragon ever be more noble than a princess of Coatl tribe?
 
And what about the former commander Zhi?
Sounds like she was an important person to Aunty and yet she failed to prevent her "death." Then again, she is only Human and shouldn't be blamed for being born into a lesser race.
 
Yet even a superior Yuan-ti like myself fails sometimes, like when I... explained to Yuki why he shouldn't blame me for the events in the White Dragon room and even... showed weakness in front of those tattoo monks. Though I am elsewise smart enough to not sleep in a room full of people who would- at the first opportunity- stab me in back or worse...