She hadn't been at all certain it would work when she approached the other Kumiho and gave her proposition of imbuing a stone or two together. It had taken all of her nerve to do it, and even then she had expected rejection from the clearly noble born. It had been with great surprise and elation then that he had agreed. She suspected it had something to do with the fact that she had agreed to help him care for his sister and son, but if that was all she was expected to do for him in return for furthering her own family's bloodline and also getting to have such a strong noble bloodline inserted into it, then she considered herself quite fortunate indeed.
