<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)<br/><div align="center">Doji Shizuka (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=277531.msg13637264#msg13637264)</div></div>Doji Shizuka responded to the explanations of both Kenshin and Herohide with a soft and appreciative inclining of her head.  If they were planning on regrouping and left in opposite directions, most likely they would regroup in the West or the East, something to remember and consider.<br/><br/>Or, if they did split up, perhaps the matter was simple - if lacking the virtue of Duty and Loyalty.  An honorable samurai would never abandon their charge, yet the same might not be so for a ronin and a mahō-tsukai.  It almost seemed preferable to her that the ronin actually had some reason for going to the Wall and abandoning Michiru, horrible as such a reason might be.<br/><br/>However, at this point, it was merely staring into the Void, simple guesswork.  The gentle fanning with Iie-Shizuka showed that she had no further questions.  The witnesses to the murder would have much more actual information.