<div class="floatleft">(http://i51.tinypic.com/vh3jtu.png)</div><div class="floatleft">(http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk8/hornerjs82/albino_beauty-2.jpg)</div><div class="floatleft">(http://i54.tinypic.com/2rm6yv7.png)</div><br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Name:</strong> Doji Riel</span><br/><strong>Clan:</strong>Crane Clan, Doji Family<br/><strong>Class:</strong>Shugenja Class,<br/><strong>Honor:</strong>6.5<br/><strong>Sex/Age:</strong>Female, 19<br/><strong>Hair:</strong>Silvery-white<br/><strong>Eyes:</strong>Silver<br/><strong>Height/wight:</strong>4'6 (1.36 m) and 70#  (31.75 kg)<br/><strong>Time:</strong>Arriving at town – Day -3<br/><br/><br/><br/><strong>Tags:<strong> Everyone, especially – Kai, Misaki, Matsu, Hachi, Yuuji, Akemi<br/><br/></strong></strong><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Character Pictures</div><div class="spoiler_body">(http://i1233.photobucket.com/albums/ff383/Idariel1/Axiomalbinolady2Femio-1.jpg)<br/><br/>(http://i1233.photobucket.com/albums/ff383/Idariel1/Axiomalbinonotaltered-1.jpg)<br/></div></div><br/>Matsu Tetsuya, being of the Lion Clan, naturally assumed command. He was swift of mind and attentive to the courtiers, which suited Riel.<br/><br/>Doji Riel's fan moved gently, one moment obscuring her face, the next revealing it, always so that the lovely side filled with Cranes and the image of the Crane garden was to those around her. The inside, with darker images, was for her alone.<br/><br/>Her dark blue kimono set off silvery hair, adorned with elaborate hair pins with Cranes on them, even as the kimono had pink cherry trees and silver cranes scattered in a whimsical fashion over it. Her familys mon sat in isolated splendor on her right arm, the clan's mon on her left. She seemed poised always on the brink of flight, as if she might shimmer and become the emblem of the clan she loved so deeply.<br/><br/>She watched intently as Suzume Hachi was asked to walk amongst the peasants, asking questions. A flashing glance at Dadaijo Misaki and she looked away, pretending indifference. But it would difficult, if the Sparrow took offense. She'd scarcely been granted speech with the young man.<br/><br/>Then the monk spoke, and Riel gifted him with a quiet smile and an answering bow.<strong>“I would be honored to attend to these duties with you, Kai-sama.</strong>” She did not, even after two years, speak for her Yojimbo, though she knew Misaki would not let her go alone.<br/><br/>She thought for a moment; it as an axiom that none knew politics like the Crane Clan, but then … it was also true that they were not most known for war.<strong>“If it is war you wish guidance on, I believe none know it quite like the Crab Clan.”</strong>She glanced at Hida Yuuji.<strong>“If no other duties require you, Hida Yuuji-san, would you wish to accompany us?”</strong><br/><br/>She looked once more at Tetsuya, then her gaze fell upon the Sparrow Bushi.<strong>“Suzume Hachi-san, is it your will to travel with us? Or to perhaps ask another Shujenga to accompany you?”</strong>She studied the assembled Legion.<strong>“Moto Akemi-san, perhaps you would be willing to accompany him, so that no one walks here alone until we know what to expect?”</strong><br/><br/>She fluttered her fan slowly, quicksilver eyes resting in turn upon each of those present before coming to rest upon her Yojimbo. A faint smile quirked, and she tilted her head in gracious inquiry as to Misaki's wishes.<strong>“Dadaijo Misaki-san,* shall we search amongst the people with Kai-sama?”</strong><br/><br/><br/><br/>*Trying for respectful but exceedingly fond of her; not sure what is correct.