KITSUKI AKANO<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">"Please. The oni. You have to .. have to kill it .. before it's too late."</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>I nodded at the frightened man. I looked around me, calling for some rope. One of the Magistrates had some and threw me a length. I bound the archer's wrists and ankles.<br/><br/><strong>"Wait here,"</strong>I said to him with a wink, and rose.<br/><br/>Going over to the doorway to the room with the<em>maho</em>caster I listened to what the man was saying.<br/><br/><strong>"This is not my province but there seems to be power defending the circle, we need a greater power to break in. We need powerful good <em>kami</em> I think, or a blessed item that has awoken."</strong><br/><br/>I looked at the others, especially the<em>shugenja</em>.