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Diss hand shot up, snatching Hisano’s away from his face. He gave her a warning glare before letting her hand go. He here to be safer sure, but that didn’t mean trusted her. Not necessarily that he liked her, she had given him no reason for either so far, but she had yet to give him a reason to distrust her either. “My wounds are already treated. I just needed some where a bit safer than no where to rest a while. If you don’t mind.” It wasn’t exactly a question of permission, he was going to sit there weather she liked it or not, well, unless she got violent about it anyway.

“I wouldn’t wonder too far off, there’s a tengu walking around. Not in any condition to fight anymore, but you maybe a little more territorial than I am.” He didn’t know how she felt about the tengu, didn’t care too much either way, but she deserved the heads up. Leaning back against the tree, he let out a deep sigh and relaxed. “I’ll only be a day. Do keep the mini meals away, I’m rather hungry.” As if to emphasize his point his stomach let out a loud growling. Not that he would really eat them, he didn’t like kids, no matter their race.

Diss’ reflexively blinked as water, lightly mixed with fish blood dripped on his face. He looked past the speared fish to Hisano. “It must suck to be you sometimes.” Reaching up he took the spear, three fish, hardly a sufficient meal, but nothing was the lesser option. With out a second hesitation he dug into the three-piece meal on a stick. When he finished the only smattering of blood, scales and bones were left. And yet, his stomach was far from satisfied, but it would have to do until he could get back to the waterfall. Letting out a satisfied sigh, Diss leaned into the tree. Snuggled between the large roots of the ancient tree, he had himself a naturally reclining bed of leave, well hidden to boot.

From this sitting vantagepoint, Diss could look about the glen without straining his neck. Looking around the glen he noted the little nest for the kits, various pockets along the edges where’d they scatter to from time to time. It made him wonder. “How long?” He let the question hang in the air before clarifying, “how long have you been watching them now, the cubs?” He turned his gaze skyward as he awaited her answer.

Off in the distance, hidden now by the thick foliage of the canopy, but he knew where it was he look upon a mountaintop. Its’ name, was it named? It didn’t matter. What was on it mattered thought, the castle of the Sojobo, the king of the tengu. Below it, hidden in its’ shadow, like they hide in the shadows of so many others, the main force bakeneko, complete with their b***h queen. “You should leave here. Soon, soon, it shall be gone. It’ll make the mountains shall shake with fear, it’ll blaze across the treetops faster than I, and it’ll break and rebuild the chains of the court. It’ll bring a new hell onto this world.” As his words drifted off, so too did he drift off to sleep.

((sorry for the long wait, been busy))

((oh yeah, intro post))

Einjeru, Einjeru of the Myu-jikku family from the Ki'Mei clan, as the signed on parchment said she had been scribbling on read, sat in the darkness of her room in the clan castle. The glow of a single candle illuminated the small area of the table. Picking up a piece of wax she held it over the flame before pressing it to the paper. She applied her seal to wax with loud thud, before tossing it to the side. Holding it up to the light, she read over the letter that she had finished checking for errors or anything she may have forgotten. A simple update report to her father, a weekly thing she had been doing since he returned to his personal castle on the southern border of the empire. Satisfied with its thoroughness, she put it to the candle’s flame. The paper quickly burned releasing a black inky cloud that hovered and swirled over candle in nothing remained. The ink cloud remained only a moment longer as it suddenly undulated and flew through the cracks of the window shutters.

The dark emerald color her nails seemed black as they reached out and pinched the flame pining the room into darkness. Only momentarily did the other candles in the room then light of their own will, illuminating the room in their soft glow. Preparing for bed, she ran a brush, simple in make and design it meant simple to do its job, through her hair; long and a dark blue gray, it spilled over her shoulders to hang at her waist. Her simple red kimono clung loosely to her body, modestly exposing the coppery skin of her chest. Not at all bashful, as was her nature, she did not move to cover herself when she heard the sound the door sliding open. “Yes?” Only someone of higher status would enter her room unannounced. Then came the click of the door sliding shut, not even Mikaboshi would simply walk in with out saying something, it wasn’t how things went around here. She could feel her pick up its pace as the silence continued and yet she could feel them approach closer. Crystal blue eyes, dulled by the faint candle light, only caught the sight of a boot’s bottom as it slammed into her head, pinning her to the table. From the corner of her she watched the soldier, Ki’Mei, unsheathed its blade. She could not see the face through the intricately designed mask it wore, the dimness hiding its eyes.

She gasped desperately trying to catch her breath she upon the blade imbedded in the table, only a fingers width away from her eyes. As she felt the pressure leave her head, she quickly turned on the attacker, hissing as she spoke, “what the hell do you think you’re doing? You’re not supposed to be here yet.”

The mask and helmet clattered to the flow in unison as Diss dropped the large bundle he had been carrying. “Shut up before someone hears you. Your brother is out there already and he’s growing impatient.” A mischievous grin crossed his lips as he went on, “you really should just ******** him already. He’s so attached a the hip already there wouldn’t be much difference then the way things are now.” He ignored Einjeru’s glare as he chuckled to himself, unwrapping the bundle. The body of a Ki’Mei soldier rolled out onto the floor, unconscious or dead she couldn’t tell, it didn’t matter either way, he’d be dead soon enough if he wasn’t. “Where is it?”

“The closet, back right corner on the floor there’s some loose boards. The books and scrolls, the way you asked for them.” Gaining some of her composure back, she pulled the tops of the kimono up, covering herself from the chill. Not from a breeze, it came from Diss, something about him always sent chills through her body. Perhaps it was just how animal he was, or how human, or how he could so much of both in all the worst ways. He didn’t take long, straight to the point, business as always between them.

When Diss stood with the bag and a cylinder case in his he spoke again. “You remember the plan?”

“Yes, when my father goes, I take his place. When the fire happens, I give it the backing it needs to join the courts. Really, talking about it so much like this, can’t be safe.” Diss only grunted in response, securing the items on his body.

“Just don’t forget how you got this far.”

“The same to you,” she hissed.

“Tch.” Picking up the sleeping demon he turned its back to the door. Holding it outstretched he stood he had when pinning Einjeru to the table. “Scream.” As on cue, Tomu, Einjeru’s younger brother, garbed in the same gray-blue hair and armed with the same piercing eyes, burst through the paper door. Drawing his blade and striking across his victim’s back. As the almost corpse hit the floor, his blade struck again, splitting the skull in half. When the guards and castle occupants came running Diss and the only trace he had been there were gone, in his place the slain Ki’Mei soldier.