> "Thank you" Dink the tea
>You accept the mug and take a sip. It's quite good, actually!
>"I'm glad you like it," she says, noting your reaction. She stirs the soup, takes a small sample and seems to decide it's warm enough. She starts to spoon out a bowl for you. "I already had some earlier, but I think I might have a second helping. Would you like some mochi, too?"
> Hmm, maybe she was the person you were investigation in the forest
>You really didn't get a good look at her, at the time. The light was poor, and there were trees in the way. She sounded younger, though, and she was certainly wearing a different style of clothing. Western, rather than Eastern.
>Consider former humans.
>You try to enumerate youkai who you knew to be formerly human. It's a pretty short list, really. She doesn't look anything like Alice, at least. And given how much the village resembles the village you knew, you have your doubts that the distant past was altered in any fundamental way. Even small changes that far back can have cascading consequences on the present. You probably wouldn't even recognize the place.
