Snippet #1164564

"I met her after I returned to the Kan estate." Ren began, anything to get the topic of what he should and shouldn't be doing. Including the fact that he probably needed to eat, seeing as he hadn't in a few days... was amazing he was still even alert. He folded his hands up under his chin, peering across at Shizuka for the time being.

"I took the bodies of the children on Ma-..." He cleared his throat, "My own behest." He peered to Edo, as if looking to see if she had taken note of what he had almost said prior.

"Buried them on a hill overlooking a small valley near the estate proper." His eyes came to rest once again on the female ronin. " I came back to the Estate to see if Lord Mamoru and the others were still waiting."

The next thing he would say is what he hadn't mentioned to Shizuka prior, or even Mamoru himself. "I went back to that estate to look for any survivors that remained after my search turned up no remainders of the Murakami." He reached a hand out, tapping the top of the table they sat at. "I had by the point Shizuka, succumb to the air about the Estate. The air, stained with death, the burning smell of charred flesh." He brought his hand back to rest with his other under his chin.

"When I saw her, I thought perhaps she had been one of them... Surveying the destruction. So I followed her." He narrowed his eyes upon the woman he was speaking of, smiling somewhat kindly. "She eventually figured out that I, who little could even recognize, much less take sense I had been in their shadow, was indeed right behind her in the night." He peered to Lady Edo.

"She's a smart girl. Certainly not one to be underestimated." He gave a shrug of his shoulders, continuing. "After I spoke to her for a bit, walked in silence, and all that like. I could come to the assumption she wasn't one of the Kan, and could safely take my leave. Little did I know..." He sighed, peering back to Shizuka.

"That I'd run into her here." He clapped his hands together, lacing the fingers of his hands together before leaning forward and resting the point of his chin against them. "Everything I've said in this room doesn't leave the safety of the Edo Clan, lest Mamoru find me growing weak and likely to question orders."