<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Koseru Maseko</div><div class="spoiler_body">Sheet (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=283917) and Description (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=234223.msg11532337#msg11532337)</div></div><hr/><br/>Maseko noticed the ronin's discomfiture and distraction before entering the room and took the opportunity to file in behind him.  As they were about to enter the room, Maseko murmured quietly to him, "Steady, Kaeru-sama.  This is a voyage as any other and the fortunes have willed that we sail it together."  She chuckled low, so that he could barely hear, before continuing "Soon, I think we will all be looked down upon by the great families, eh?"  She smiled beneath her veil, a genuine amusement colouring her expression as she followed the man into the room where their oaths of fealty would be sworn.<br/><br/>At the Otomo's announcement, Maseko considered announcing herself just to be done with the whole thing- but there was no reason to bring shame on her clan... well.  As she recalled that there was an expectation to maintain a certain... reputation for the Scorpion, she smiled and stepped forward, proclaiming confidently "I am Koseru Maseko of the Maseko family, vassal to the Soshi, themselves vassal to the Bayushi, of the Scorpion Clan."  Her voice projected, years of relaying orders aboard ship and singing sea shanties allowing her to fill the room with her voice.  "And from this day forward, I swear fealty and allegiance to the Owl Clan," she finished, both proudly and simply, as she removed the veil from her face and cast it onto the floor.<em>And this presentation,</em>she thought to herself,<em>may well be my last as a Scorpion.  Perhaps one day my new family will forgive me.  Then again, perhaps not.</em>Outwardly, she said "I await the command of my daimyo," and stepped back into line.<br/><hr/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">Maseko, you might ask, why would you behave in such a dishonorable fashion?  <em>Honor?  Pft!  My background is Scorpion, Mantis and Crab.  Honor is for other people.  Now where's the Sake?</em></div></div>