The Ways of the Sword |Daiichi|
Mai exhaled slowly, expensive red silk gliding over porceleain skin as she extended her arm and took a graceful step forward. The sword in her hands dipped, its sleek metal catching the dusty...
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Daiichi couldn't sleep. He had managed to get an early night, but had been lying there for hours, forcing himself to lie still under the cool sheets in the hope that his body would understand it was...
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Kimiko was a young girl with a round, shy face. Her hair was done up neatly and modestly and her kimono was a soft lilac color printed with reeds. She had been serving the Inoue family for so long...
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She was more observant than Daiichi had anticipated. He felt the cold night breeze stir the hairs on the back of his neck, but no sooner had he realised that would give him away than she had turned....
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The moonlight crept across his features like the long white tendrils of frozen branches and swept away the darkness. Elegance and regality was revealed, if coupled with a somewhat amusing display of...
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Daiichi allowed himself a slightly incredulous look at the girl facing him, an imperceptible change in his stance that suggested he didn't quite believe he was hearing that tone. Who did she think she...
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The Lady bit down her resentment and subtly watched him, her face half turned and her attention seemingly on something of greater interest than what he had to show her. But she was watching, make no...
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Daiichi was very aware that the girl's attention was fixed on his movements, despite her show of indifference. When he had finished, and taken the hand off the hilt of his dagger, he looked at her....
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Lady Inoue had never been more furious in her life. "Do not mock me," Mai all but snarled for the sudden fierceness in her words, stopping just short of curling her lip in a sneer. Who did he think he...
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At the first gesture Daiichi very nearly did turn around and walk out, having some choice put-downs lined up on his tongue. However, when she carried on he paused for a moment, recognising the anger...
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She very nearly uttered the phrase your word means nothing, but managed at the last moment to hold her tongue. The things that he said - it was far from an apology, formal or otherwise. But the look...
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