She doesn't recognise that tree.
She's been here before, she's not that far from the estate, this isn't some unknown place. She must've taken a wrong turn, of course, but where? She should probably just try to retrace her steps, Jaol will be incredibly mad at her...
He sets her down on the shore and dramatically clasps his hands to his breast. "But how can you favor math over me? How can there be a supreme benevolent ruler who actually likes math?"
"Math is the supreme benevolent ruler language! Everything is math!"
"Everything? Say it isn't so! How am I to function in a world of math?"
...He loses his composure and bends over, laughing and gasping for breath.
Between giggles: "Math needs to be dethroned, then!"
"But then what's left? Chaos, I tell you! Only chaos! Is that what you want, Tetsuma? Were those words of making things better lies? Or worse—statistics?!"
"Never statistics! They," giggle, "are a tyrant worse than math! Statistics come from math, and without math there will be no such lies!"
"There will be nothing." She rests the back of her hand on her forehead. "Doomed! We'll all be doomed!"
"Math is Common Sense! You cannot have one without the other! It is law!"
Tetsuma giggles. "I suppose as your kage I'm bound to follow my supreme ruler's laws."
"Maybe as the Supreme Benevolent Ruler you can make math behave itself." He leans into pets.
"It behaves itself! It's always the same, it's people that are so inconsistent." Pet pet pet.
"But what's the point of being the supreme ruler if you can't make math easier?" He gives her a teasing kiss on the cheek.
"I'm afraid even I, as the supreme ruler, have some powers I must bow to."
He tries to say something but can't through the giggles. Kisses, though, kisses he can do while laughing.
Eventually he gets his laughter under control a bit. Well, mostly. It's down to random giggles.
"You'll be the absolute best supreme ruler. Even if you support the regime of math." Kiss!
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