Emi stepped to the side of the door as the last bandit dropped, gripping her katana's hilt tightly, feeling the sweat that dampened the silk wrapped around the hilt.  She made a traditional flick of the sword, flicking off the blood that had annointed it.  She hoped her grandmother would be happy with how Emi had acquitted herself.<br/><br/>Then she turned to face the Scorpion who had come to her aid.  Well, if it wasn't the help that she would have chosen for herself, it was the help that her karma had chosen for her.  Nothing to be done about it but take her place on the Wall and go about her duty.<br/><br/>"Bandits and filth," Emi spat tersely to the Scorpion.  "Someone with them is using maho, too."<br/><br/>Although the bandits who had immediately attacked her had been dealt with, there were still archers inside.  Indeed an arrow had pierced the Scorpion who had come to her aid.  But that could not be a reason why she stopped now -- This warehouse held within it the key to cracking the mystery of the oni, she felt it in her bones!  Those archers had to be dealt with, before they unleashed the horrors of Fu Leng on the innocent (such as they were) Scorpions of the city.<br/><br/>"I mean to go in there and cut down those archers before they flee, or worse escape with whatever it is they are trying to accomplish.  If you are wounded, take a message to the other magistrates with me and tell them I have found a hive of bandits.  If not, stay behind me.  We'll see how those arrows fair against Crab steel."<br/><br/>With that, Emi readied herself, popping her head forward to peep into the warehouse, hoping to get a clue where the archers were and quickly pulling her head back before they feathered her.  She'd have no choice but to charge the scum, hoping her armour would hold true as she got close enough to cut them down.