What has come undone gets sealed shut again. That is the one thing my house has done for a thousand years.
I have not forgotten a single one of your ancestors' faces.
Lady Shiranui, that nail can be driven into a person just as easily.
A nail and a talisman. That is the whole of what I carry.
What has come undone gets sealed shut again. That is the one thing my house has done for a thousand years.

The chain is untouched, only the writing has been scraped away. A place a human hand has touched always shows.