<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/6/65/Ryuko_the_Outcaste.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Ryuko the Outcaste (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b2Xzb2PKv_KjRhKdUg7OzRXXkXh5Trlj1PpYld-pG-c/edit?usp=sharing)</strong></span><br/><strong>Date/Time:</strong>28th of Resplendent Earth, Evening after meeting to review evidence<br/><strong>Where:</strong>The City of Narthekhal, Upstairs, The Seven Flowers Bathhouse, private meeting room<br/><strong>Doing</strong>Protecting her charge<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Carnelian, Nellens, Kotone<br/><hr/>When the meeting was to take place, Ryuko played her part, standing in the corner, arms crossed under her cloak, one hand resting on the hilt of her daiklave while she kept herself alert.  The woman, Rhapsody, arrived and things seemed to be going alright at first.  Then a man who clearly wasn't welcome, accompanied by the blind Nellens, showed, someone that had Ryuko drawing her blade and ready to intercede should he try to harm her client.  He smiled in a way that reminded the Fire Dragon of... her, but before she could drive her blade through his chest, Nellens drove him to the floor and crushed the life out of him.  Carnelian tried to put on a strong front, but it quickly became clear that it was just that, and when the façade crumbled she tried to stop it, but the inquisitor was already dead.  Ryuko didn't sheath her sword, however, stepping forward to interpose herself between Nellens and Carnelian, and only stopped when given instructions to retrieve something for her employer.<br/><br/>"I don't care, by the way," she informed Carnelian quietly as she reluctantly sheathed her daiklave.  "Princess, dancer, demon, none of that matters to me."  She turned away and headed to find that box.  "I'm your bodyguard, not your priest, and everyone has secrets they'd rather didn't see the light of day."  Then she left to get this weird root for her mistress so they could hide the death of someone she couldn't care less about.