She sighed and shook her head a moment.  It wasn't the first time she'd heard such things.  There were a number of gifted individuals that never really received the proper training and nestled what they did with whatever paradigms they were most familiar with.  "I'm don't believe, personally, that you don't speak with the kami.  However, the working that you did, no matter how you decide you went about it, was a spell.  A working of magic.  As such," she took the chance to meet her eyes for a split second, "falls under the guidelines of the council."<br/><br/>The warden pauses at her second comment, thinking to herself.  The name rang a distant bell...she tilted her head a bit, "any relation to Kazumi Saito?"  A few moments later she actually let a small laugh slip, "ah...I remember now!  There were records that she had a daughter, though she managed to...slip past during the chaos?"<br/><br/>She smiled somewhat sadly, letting a hand rest on Hitomi's shoulder a moment.  "I...cannot say that I understand what you went through, Hitomi.  I doubt many can, but...do you understand what she had done?  Why they...we, did what did?"  She sighed a bit and let her hand drop back to her side.