Sucking in a breath, O-Ren managed to make herself stand back up. She completed her prayers, ringing the bell first, and in lieu of coins, dropped the rings into the collection box. Please let me be done now.

"Owarimasu," she murmured, bowing, and then, surreptitiously wiping at her eyes, she jogged back down the steps to Arya.

"Think you can drive without crashing us?"