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Howaidos voice would come through after a couple hours to San. "Ive got her, shes in a warehouse in Takumi. I caught an empty boast sailing out with rations and weapons, I think her job was to get supplies for them and throw us off if one of us tracked her so we were weakened. I guess she didnt expect Sunagakures Blood Hound to be at her heels. It as a little tough but I followed her all the way, Im going to try to capture her, but if she leaves me no choice I may come back with a corpse on my hands. Ive locked us in the warehouse for now no way in or out till its done with. Ill let you know what I find out next, Basts sister isnt around as far as I can see either if you can let her know for me."

◆◈◆◈◆"My sands will be your end"◆◈◆◈◆

---Clone with James and Lucas---

"Yeah, thats why you enlisted the help of the cook, to cook good food packed with energy so you guys can get back to work. Lucas, you are to return to the center of everything as we are gathering people for a expedition team."

After giving instructions, the clone lead James to the tents.

---San with Bast---

Hearing Howaido's voice through the bonds golem, San immedeatly began speaking, hopefully not catching Bast in the middle of her sentence. He relayed the information that Howaido told him to the Sannin and looked for a response from her.

◆◈◆◈◆"Never doubt yourself"◆◈◆◈◆

Anima was feeling rather lively after eating her snacks, so she hopped down from the cart and started strolling around the area. The castle was cooling in the dropping evening temperature, the fire having burnt away all flammable items in the hours previous to the current situation. The sprinklers inside had cooled everything down, it seemed, as the lady approached. Nearby, the rubble of hundreds of buildings afforded little other than hot metal. With a look between the castle and the rubble, Anima conjured up several clones and set about fortifying the first floors of the castle. What few windows there were had layers of metal placed over them; all doors to the outside and the subterranean floors were barricaded using heavy steel beams and the cracks underneath them were covered with bags of gravel and sand.

As the group moved on to the second and third floors of the castle, Anima munched on some more sugar candies. Feeling generous, she also sent some back toward Bast, controlling them with the Projectile Control Technique easily.

Bast listened patiently to San's message from Howaido, but could not help but show her discontent at the situation. The feeling was dispersed slightly when several sugar candies floated down from the sky and began to orbit her head, but not enough that it stopped showing.

"Tell him that if he kills her, his head will roll. Tell him also that he cannot possibly hope to win against her in his current state, as he has essentially done nothing but lock himself in that warehouse. From what we've seen, she has ways of leaving locked rooms faster than we comprehend, so locking her in with him is the worst possible thing that he could have done," the woman responded, taking a bite out of the orbiting ring of candy. "She probably doesn't even take us seriously at this point, so it would be best if he just turned around and came back. At all costs, she should not be attacked."

Anima: 870 Chakra
Bast: 930 Chakra

James Cameron Poe

The Frozen Sand
James headed into the medical tent after another food break. And tended to a shrapnel wound a man had received to his stomach. Earlier James had put the man's intestines back in, and used his healing hands specifically on the sack that contained his organs. James had had to prepare a extremely powerful anesthetic to keep the man under control, and James now stitched his abdomen closed. once the stitches were complete; James laid his healing hands on once again. The wound was still a large scar, but in the choice between waking up scarred and not waking up, James though the man would be happy. James moved on to the next patient.

nodding at the information given to him Lucas understood their objective but wanted to clear up some confusion he had over the group structure.
"so... are we splitting into smaller groups or will we travel as a group like this?"
he said. something he would need to do for future missions would be to train up his douka as it could be a wonderful technique for aiding people.

Howaidos response was delayed, but it came through after a few minutes. "What was that about not being able to catch her in the warehouse? Sensei, underestimates me, she acts like she taught me nothing. The target got herself caught, by trying to use the same trick twice, I have her in my custody right now. Too bad for her the Mayfly has its weaknesses. I may be bringing our guest back for food later if things go well, so leave some for the guy whos doing his job, haha."

The fortification effort continued, and with the barbed wire in place, the Anima clones worked on gathering broken glass to scatter across the ground in between the loops of wire. The night was cold, but the white cloaks that each Anima wore were fastened tight to prevent the wind from chilling them; they did not protect the large halos on their heads, though, which meant that the small blue-green planet and the moon jittered in their stardust-lined orbits.

The fortification efforts inside had moved upward to the fifth and sixth levels. Above them was the roof, and that would likely take the longest to fortify at their rate of work. Windows were being shuttered with corrugated metal and periodically there were strands of wires decorated with baubles that lined the walls. Barrels of water had been brought in, and sat neatly every hundred feet or so along the hallways. The electricity had been cut off, and the lights had been substituted with small lanterns made from chunks of purified variable marble materials.

Bast nodded in thought, and remained silent for a moment before answering San's propositions.

"We do all need to run together at this point. I would imagine that getting in and out of the castle normally without sustaining significant injury at this point would be rather difficult, so we'll need to stick together so that we might not be too much of a burden," she explained, trying to sound as reasonable as possible under the circumstances. "The wounded should be taken to a local hospital shortly. Bringing them to the Village when Siniku is going to send out a medical squad seems like a waste, but I'll put up a barrier around them in about a minute or two."

While San listened to Howaido, Bast scrawled a barrier seal on a tag, including the special coding for shape, size, and type. She then put a Tebanasu Fuuin on it and tossed it near the injured.

"Tell Howaido he's an idiot if he believes a word that she's saying. If she's capable of something like what she showed earlier, then she's simply toying with him until he reveals something significant about himself. If it were me, I would look for his strengths, weaknesses, his summons, his current mission, and his personality. Just knowing those would say a lot about the way Sunagakure runs, which is why Oinin are supposed to simply kill their targets if they have no reason to keep them alive," the woman stated, a twinge of irritation entering her voice again.

Anima: 900 Chakra
Bast: 955 Chakra