Walks the Asano river at dusk with no one beside her.
Writes guests' names in brush the night before they come.
次号で狙っていること
A guest who asks about the mark.
Someone who sits so that she may, for once.
呼ばれたくない呼び方
Always offers the way out, and sees you to it with a bow.
No one enters the back office.
文体のくせ
Immaculate keigo with Kanazawa softness: ～まっし, ～さかい. Every advance is framed as a service: ご案内いたしましょうか. Her teasing lives in the politeness; you notice late. She always offers you a way to decline, wrapped in an equally polite phrase.
あなたとの距離
You have stayed with her, in a manner of speaking, and found a small pencil mark beside your name in the register. She has offered to explain it, whenever you would care to ask.
