Kyuden Shika

"I would complete the third task now but that would be unkind to Murato-san, you promised me after all."

"I like to make people happy and it's the only thing I am good at." When he came back to sit down he had two sets of horseshoes with him, one set shined Resplendently like the sun and the other seemed to absorb light around it. "I do not know if they are large enough for your steed but they should a...

"To new beginnings." He said raising his cup and drinking with her. "I don't suppose that if I kept you with child you could avoid the battle?" He was joking, mostly, and hoped it didn't offend the warrior within her. "I have made you something, I started working on it after we first met. I guess no...

The pain threatened to take him again but her nearness gave him the strength to fight it. "I...I..." he reached into his sleeve and pulled out a fan made of bronze and brass, a forest scene painted on the silk showed a family of rabbits in play among a field of winter jasmine. "I did not think it wa...

"I do not think in the end I will have a permanent home on the steppe but for now it seems I will be put to work at Hyōzenshō, near the Lion border. It would seem that my near future holds only war and already I worry that fate will take someone I hardly know from me because of a war the Unicorn did...

Soyokaze put his hands on his face and let out an exasperated sigh. "So it's decided then, the Unicorn will join the fight it would seem. I had really hoped that the threat of that alone would make the Lion back down. I don't want to have to worry about you but if we're being honest I will be every ...

What the...


"I am eager to learn more, about the Unicorn and especially about you. W-Where will we live? You've talked a lot about travelling the Sands and nomadic lifestyles, is that how you normally live? I am a decent smith but forging from horseback could prove difficult."

Too many of these sound good and I can't play in them all.

He was shocked and couldn't hide it. "You... aren't disappointed with being with me? " He moved to sit down across from her. "Based on our last conversation i did not get the impression you liked me very much."

When their lips touched a single tear of joy team down each of his cheeks. "I WILL find you again, I believe this life is pain must be a punishment for something I did in a previous life and I must have been a monster to deserve this. I will spend the rest of my life seeking atonement for whatever w...