Destroy

 SUMIRE

"Mate?" Sumire repeated.

"Do you like fairy tales miss Ibuki?"

"I do." She reads quite a bit so she knows what mates are, at least if they are talking about the same thing.

"The fae as they were called saw mates as the other half of their soul. Which came first, the soul bond or the mating bond. Nobody truly knows. But no matter which came first, Gods and Goddesses as well as humans have liked to refer to their other half as mates."

"Are you saying me and Yuhi-"

"The soul bond and the mating bond, you have both bonds with the spirit King."

She already felt like this lady would reveal a lot, but this. Thump. Thump.

"At least that was the case for the first seven lives."

Thump.

Thump.