<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, Ichirou<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/><br/><br/><br/>Doji Riel watched the Sparrow Bushi out of the corner of her eye. He had the faintest smile on his lips, as if at a secret joke. That curve of lip relaxed her tense shoulders. Once more they avoided a duel or fight over leadership that would lead to failure in their assigned task. He looked at her when she spoke, a bit of color in his cheeks; but then his gaze rested on the Courtiers, both of whom were quite beautiful.<br/><br/>She was still watching him, when Bayushi Yukiko co-opted the Monk and therefore saw the Sparrow's polite acceptance of her company.<br/><br/>There was that tiny thrill of doing the forbidden, since she well knew her father's strictures on all the people she was not to talk to. For two years they'd been out here, and the list of forbidden people seemed to grow longer with each letter from home. But she still found herself bowing to him in polite acceptance. Maybe she would hear one of those famed Sparrow stories.<br/><br/>Then she bowed respectfully to Kai-Sama.<strong>“If this arrangement suits you, Kai-sama?”</strong>It was more his decision, than the Scorpion's … but the final decision would likely rest with the Lion.<br/><br/>Hida Yuuji's gaze swept over the area that was their new responsibility before answering her. His answer brought a twinkle to her eye and a flutter of her fan. She took a moment, looking at the man, to imagine just how a stranger might feel facing him. And who better then a Hida Bushi to know if the fortifications were sound? She bowed to him.<strong>“I understand, Hida Yuuji-san.”</strong><br/><br/>Riel tried not to smile, but despite the traditional enmity she was supposed to feel on Misaki's behalf, Mirumoto Ichirou almost always brought a laugh or a smile with him. So though her look was properly   composed her eyes laughed with him as he nimbly maneuvered for tasks while pretending to be trying to get out of them.<br/><br/>He really should have been a courtier, with that wit.<br/><br/>So it was with sparkling, twinkling eyes and that faint, mischievous smile of doing something one really ought not to do that she bowed to Suzume Hachi, and looked over at the Lion.<br/><br/>How would he take this rearranging of his orders?