<div class="floatright">(http://pre01.deviantart.net/993d/th/pre/f/2012/195/c/a/legend_of_the_five_rings_female_samurai_by_phantom_cz-d579ozg.jpg)</div><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Seven Words of Wisdom</div><div class="spoiler_body">Personal: 13/13 Peripheral: 29/33<br/></div></div><br/>Seven likewise nodded her respect to the monks, taking an unnecessary step out of the way when it was clear that they weren't actually coming to speak to her.  She hadn't been entirely certain, but with anyone in a position of power, it proved preferable to give the benefit of the doubt in their favor.<br/><br/>Her eyes slipped away, glancing through the area when a stunningly beautiful woman exchanged words with a youth.  It wasn't her that caught Seven's attention, though, but that nudging feeling that meant that her brain had locked in on something important.<br/><br/>A library could well be saturated with information, but it still took time to go through and catalog, finding out what was important instead of simply having the available knowledge immediately at hand.  As much as Seven might prefer easy answers, she knew that life was never so simple.<br/><br/>She committed every inch of the boy to memory: weedy, mid-teens, wearing undyed wool without any wear and tear, the beginnings of a proper beard, the kind of flirtatious and overextravagant manner not uncommon to boys his age in front of pretty girls.  Her gaze combed over him the way a talented barber searched every inch of a person's hair in order to seek any imperfection, whatever might stand out in her search to add this boy to the library of her mind, properly filed and detailed.<br/><br/>Barbers had it easy, of course: they had a particular design in mind and could simply change everything else to match.  She had to learn everything, caught only in the silence of a handful of seconds of watching, listening, observing.  It wasn't entirely the boy, either, for the crowd held whispers of conversation, their own little remarks to add footnotes and annotations to her rapidly-filling mental papyrus.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Ten Magistrate Eyes +1 from Excellency: 2 successes</div><div class="spoiler_body">Roll Result: AndyZ rolled: 10d10<br/>First Target Number: 7<br/>Second Target Number: 10<br/>Comment: Ten Magistrate Eyes +1E<br/>Result: 3, 7, 5, 4, 3, 9, 6, 4, 4, 6, <br/>For: 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, <br/>Total: 2<br/><br/>Guess we get the bad rolls out of the way...<br/></div></div>