<strong>Oshiro Midori (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=274532.msg13508458#msg13508458)</strong><br/><strong>Location</strong>: Oshiro Clan Estate<br/><strong>Tagged</strong>: Itakura Tametane (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=274532.msg13520213#msg13520213); Emiko Oshiro (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=274532.msg13526898#msg13526898)<br/><hr/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote from: </div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">"Oshiro Dono.  I have heard you would have words with your most loyal general."</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>It wasn't the first time he had come in like a brigand to meet her; Itakura always caused a ruckus. His arrival wasn't as much of a surprise as he expected... At least not to Midori. When he came through the window, her hand had flitted almost unseen to her father's blade on he ground at her side. It was possibly unseemly that a woman would carry a man's weapon, but she was a Daimyo -- a clan leader, and now a warlord. The bureaucrats could eat their hearts out.<br/><br/>She inclined her head to her general with a smile, and then gestured with her hands for the servants to leave. Emiko would arrive soon. Nothing improper could be assumed by her being alone with Itakura with more company impending. After they had left, her smile vanished like a ghost. "Itakura-san, I'm glad you could make it. Are you in good health?"<br/><br/>Midori poured tea for him, and pushed it to the other end of the table where she sat in traditional style with her legs beneath her. She gauged his reaction: if he didn't want the tea, she produced a small bottle of sake from beneath the table that he knew she kept for him. Midori was polite, if nothing else. "I trust you have readied a contingent of cavalry to take with you? There's a mine to our East, near the mountains..."<br/>