Weather: Day 14

[Cearnach]

The sky today is a miserable, greasy gray. Now and then, patchy and unsatisfying rain is spat on the ground. The High today is 53 degrees Fahrenheit (12C) and the low 44 (7C), with winds reaching 3 mph (5 kph). The moon is waning gibbous.


Events
LM: Magisterial Discretion
EA: Court: Otomo Tooru presiding. The Floor; The Galleries
LA: The Bowman's Wager, Part IV: The Challenges; the Betting Hall
EE: Devil Chase, the Contest

[Cearnach]

"So the Lady Seppun and the Lord Emerald were arguing."
"No!"
"Yes! Evidently, each thinks the other's failed and is trying to get the blame where it belongs!"

Bayushi-sama is so good to her samurai. It's so good to see loyalty working both ways!

-I heard the ronin's son is stalking the countryside, killing anyone he sees see him.
-How would you hear about it if he left no witnesses?

"You know, I had never heard Sadako raise her voice before."
"What, with that business with the Champion?"
"Oh, no, that's all a lie anyway. But evidently one of the Otomo is playing a game with one of her people."
"Must be pretty bad, then."

So now she's going around with that Hiruma. I guess a "young woman" has to make herself well known.

"It used to be the stories of things stealing children in the night were tales to tell around the fire or southern border threats, not reports of courtiers' idle pass-times."

"Did you see how much money those two were slinging around?"
"I did. Did you see how much rice their people don't have?"
"Oh."

"Did you see the Crab's disagreement during the discussion about Kitsune Aiko?"
"I did... but is it that much of a disagreement, really?
"Well, they were defending different points, weren't they?
"Yes, but... Kaiu Masahiko's worries are mainly related to what happens if the Fox expresses his disagreement with his sister bring made Daimyo. That Yasuki, in turn, suggested what should happen if Fumihito is found capable
"And? They were still defending different positions"
"Were they though? It almost sounds like one of them raised a problem just for the other one to solve it." (TN 40)

[Fukurokujin]

Letters

A letter issues from Ikoma's Eye--simple, without much in the way of flourish or bombast--but endowed with a slightly pleasant scent and embossed with the kanji for "sun" and attached to a flower that only grows in the mountains of Phoenix lands circulates court before being delivered to the door of Doji Shinnosuke.

To triumph anew
While yearning for the sun's light:
The nature of Man

What victories await us
When Her golden rays sink low?

(GoL 21: You want it, come and get it.)

[Cearnach]

The new day has begun.

[Cearnach]

Scene of Interest: Incandescence

[Fukurokujin]

Get your rumors and letters in!