It would be a tough call, but he was fairly certain that Johanna was louder; for all her bluster, Miyuki was relatively softspoken, and the clanking of metal carried a good distance.<br/><br/>Fortunately, their journey would be relatively uneventful, for the three days it took them to travel the fifty miles through the dense woodlands, to reach the area of the Choking Tower, the perpetual haze of smoke around it visible above the treeline. They'd arrive in the region about midday, finding a large path through the trees that looks to have been cleared within the last few weeks... and cleared by something large, given the amount of trees destroyed, somewhat haphazardly, though inspection would show much of the damage done by man-made tools.