Krista Perry wrote:
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      Yuki-onna gazed at her coolly.  "You seem confused.  Do you
love him or no?"

Is her gaze ever anything but cool? :)

      Akane gazed into her tea miserably.  "I- I don't know."

      A half-smile crept onto the woman's cold white face.  "Then
let me give you some advice, child.  Men are not worth the grief.
Forget about him."

      Akane looked up, blinking her wet eyes.  "W-what?"

      "Men are unfaithful to the core of their souls.  If you put
your trust in them, it is inevitable that they will betray you."
Her piercing blue gaze made Akane shiver.  "Have you not found
this to be so?"

        Akane thought for a moment.  "Forgive my saying this,
Yuki-Onna, but aren't you slightly biased?  At least, assuming
that the story that I know of you was true.  Just because the man
whom you fell in love with betrayed his promise to you, doesn't
mean that all other males are like that.  For that matter, humans
are fallable, memories fade, and the more unusual ones become
dreamlike -- he might no longer have believed that his promise to
you had been a real event, but just a dream.  Is it truly betrayal
if a man fails to keep a promise that he doesn't believe that he
realy made?"

Ok, maybe she's not all that eloquent :)  Perhaps a comment on trust? 
In particular, *does* Akane trust Ranma?  If she hasn't put her trust in
Ranma, then nothing he does can truly be betrayal.  Ignoring Ranma, how
many males has she put her trust in, and been betrayed by?

      Akane looked down at her hands as she thought of Ranma and
his 'other fiancees.'  "Y-yes," she whispered.

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