<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/1/13/Keitaro.jpg)</div>Keitaro hurried to Shiori's side as she unrolled the map, doing his best to follow her comments. He peered at the road marked on the map, then looked over his shoulder at the land they had just covered. "I concur, Shiori-san. We aren't lost. We are a little late, but... surely anyone waiting for us would still be here, or at least would have left a servant to wait for us. This doesn't seem right."<br/><br/>He unslung his yumi from his back and strung it, bending the willow stave effortlessly. "It might be nothing," he said as he drew an arrow from his quiver, "but I don't like the look of this at all. Be on your guard, comrades." He began scanning the landscape around them with a keen eye, and slowly began walking towards the ridge that screened them from the road.