<div class="floatright">(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/36/7a/94/367a94bc9d32b82205598b6a14f3fe4b.jpg)</div><strong>Kogatana (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=274532.msg13503346#msg13503346)</strong><br/><strong>Location</strong>:Aka ka Compound<br/><strong>Tagged</strong>:Sanada Kori<br/><br/><br/><hr/><br/>The Aka ka compound stood a shining beacon in the darkness now shrouding the countryside, hundreds of torches sending jagged shadows over the now empty halls. The day was spent, the nearby village now dark and quiet after a of day loud bustling life, and most of the soldiers seem to have retired with them.<br/><br/>Two guardsmen stood watch in front of the towering wooden door barring the courtyard of the Aka ka compound from the outside world.  They looked down at the woman with a bleary haze evident in their eyes of a guard duty performed several hours too long. The torchlight illuminating only the raised features of their faces, keeping their eyes dark and their expressions unreadable.<br/>The taller of the two weakly rolled his neck and began to reach for his sword as the woman approached the gate, likely thinking this woman was just some wayward villager who needed to sent on their way, but he stopped dead at the mention of where the woman had come from, trying and failing to conceal a sudden sneer.<br/>"Yeah" he began, his hand now resting on the hilt of his katana. "I think Kogatana-domo would<em>love </em>to speak with you." He motioned for the other guard to move behind her, and began the lengthy process of unlocking the large door to the courtyard.<br/><br/>In a few brief moments the woman was forcibly escorted into the open courtyard beyond the door, one of the men remained close behind her while the other disappeared into compound proper, returning a few moments later with Kogatana in tow. Her silver hair practically luminous in the moonlight. Kogatana appraised the woman for a moment, but her scowl never faltered, and when she finally spoke her voiced boomed, she spoke as she wasn't speaking to the woman herself, but decrying her in front of a grand audience.<br/><br/>“A year's worth of crops” she glared down hard on the woman as she spoke, her body tense, poised, as if at any moment she was going to lunge out and sink her blade into the woman’s head. “that's how much we lost. I have a war to fight and men to feed, and how exactly am I supposed to that when I can’t even leave on missions of diplomacy without coming back to the news that clanless upstarts have burned half our supply of food? And now you threaten me and my clan, not even face to face but as a coward though text. Are you here too put me Into 'sensuous labor' he voice rang with absolute disgust and hatred. He face contorted in anger as she spoke “To ‘spread my legs’?”<br/><br/>“So tell me exactly why I shouldn't cut you down where you stand and have your head sent back over the mountain in a box of spoiled rice, your very presence is an insult, even more grave in the fact that your blustering leader refused to show up herself.” Her fingers twitched and her eyes were icy as she stood waiting, hoping for even the slightest bit of insolence to give her an excuse to stain the courtyard with the woman's blood.<br/>