=====<br/>Uako Kinme<br/>07:20, thereabouts<br/>Waiting at South Wall<br/>=====<br/><br/>Uako'd been more worried that she should have been it seemed.  She cleared the wall and landed with a slightly harder sound than she should have, emitting a groan as she shook off the shock of impact.  She made a mental note to remember that the impact produced when skipping off a surface during an Augmented Flash Step would substantially increase the range of the move, in proportion to the amount of ow-ow-ow-ow she would sustain when she landed.  She took a quick look around, threw her legs one at a time in the air to test them, and concluded that she was still battle ready.  When she turned, she saw the Gate Guardian, a huge, blue pile of muscles with a spiked pillar of iron a bit taller than she was and a pile of burgundy dreadlocks pouring down his head.  And he was watching her as if she were the single strangest thing he had ever seen.<br/><br/>Uako walked up to him and bowed.  "There's been an incident at the North Gate, involving an Adjuchas.  I'm here to back you up."<br/><br/>The Gate Guardian continued to stare at her, and it took several moments before Uako simply felt uncomfortable and walked away.<br/><br/>Uako moved a little further forward into the field in front of the gate, keeping her feelers out to see if she could detect anything.  She made a note of the Guardian's Vibration, and detected a few other living things nearby.  Nothing that screamed highly-evolved cannibalistic souls of the mal-appropriated dead.  About 20 yards away from the gate, she decided to put a sensor down near one of the structures: a collapsible antenna that acted as the primary receiver for her positioning system.  Having done this, she checked to make sure it was working correctly and meandered a bit before returning to the gate, inspecting the structures lay of the land as she walked.<br/><br/>A few of the inhabitants were watching her, not used to seeing a Captain just strolling around.  She waved to a few of them, causing some of them to run away.  She smiled.  A Captain, generally, was just as bad as they thought them to be.  The fact that she was waving really freaked them out!  Aside from needing a good prank laugh, she was happy to see the area was being cleared out with not much more effort than that.<br/><br/>The effect she had made her ponder the natures of her co-workers as she walked back.  She liked Corin.  She'd always liked Corin, even though he'd made no secret about his distaste for her when she'd been appointed.  The Black Hound was an asset to the Gotei, even if he wasn't exactly the friendly sort.  The others, though.. One giving the impression of being a perpetual drunkard, and the other, whom she'd asked to send Recon Data to Ragahashi on the Soukyouku, was always half-lost in his own world.  Not that she wasn't prone to her quirks, but she'd expected a bit different caliber of people here.  Perhaps she was just out of touch, and everyone was like this.  She sighed, uncomfortable with how little room she really had to talk.<br/><br/>Honestly," Uako thought.  "These Gate-Guardians aren't really that strong.  Some of these Captains that lack for character might do better out here."  She also wondered, though she didn't like to, just what her sword would be able to do for this one.<br/><br/>She stepped back to the Gate, gave a friendly nod, and simply waited.  Her Positioner was detecting fewer and fewer civilian life signatures.  Watching the field, she hefted her Fronteriza Dorada to make sure she was limber, and began watching the area intently.