Yuki is not especially experienced at traveling the Outside. When she had been the one empowered by starlight, it had been direct and fast. But then, that’s how it works for a kid: you wanna skip ahead, you skip ahead. It’s one of the first things she learned how to do on a TV, and honestly she still doesn’t totally believe her dad that his shows just ran continuously and you missed part of it if you wanted a snack in the middle. Like, what kind of idiot would even design it that way in the first place?! 

Anyway, she’s not quite in the driver’s seat this time. And while she might have influenced the route, her guess is that was mostly by influencing Hazel.

“Hazel, I don’t know how to tell you this, but you’re Sakura here. Lowkey everybody wants to dress you up or truss you up. Some both. You’re the destined princess, or prince, whatever. And you’re the inheritor of power who’s being tested for what to do with it. Don’t ask me why, that’s her deal” Yuki gestures to the well-knotted fox in the back of the wagon. “But don’t let the fact that you went full on foxy foxy foxy foxy throw you off that truth. You’re being asked to make choices with the power you got, and they’re just as important even if they’re not about who to stab with it. Probably more important, cuz when it’s about stabbing there aren’t usually a ton of options.”