KITSUKE AKANO<br/><br/>The evening had been so busy and so... exciting and so much had happened. I felt rather overcome by it all. I still had not had many minutes to talk with my new companions though we had had the opportunity to exchange names and greetings on our walk between the warehouse and the boat dock.<br/><br/>Murimoto San seemed to be the leader of the group and between him and Asahina San I detected a certain... connection. When the lady Shugenja went on ahead and Murimoto San made it plain he would accompany her that left Shosuro San and I together.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">"I will check in with the Thunder Guard. Go on ahead, I will meet you at the House of Water Lillies."<br/><br/>"Gate was hiding something. I'm going to keep an eye on him."<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>I fell in beside her as she walked down the narrow street,<strong>"Ex-Military, I would think. Though perhaps he is just startled by a group of Magistrates appearing unannounced at his door. I would be, if I were an ordinary city worker."</strong><br/><br/><strong>"Shosuro San, if I may be so bold as to suggest this. I have been living in the city some two weeks now. The Thunder Guard are not... how can I say this delicately... <em>unbiased</em>. Do not rely on them, I think."</strong>