Kyuden Shika

"That is the drawback of trying to do the matchmaker's job isn't it. Everyone else is trying to do their job too. Leads everyone to courting several people and then picking favorites out of the bunch and not always will the favorites line up."

"It's not guarding a clan that sounds boring. It's guard boats that does. Your whole life dedicated to protecting some boats." She shook her head. "But if you view it as guarding a clan that makes it better. After all you're right. We're all guard dogs in some capacity. Even courtiers and shugenja. ...

"Nearly any action? What actions then do you believe aren't worth it to save the life of our friends?"

"Forget it." She grumbled before taking another long drag from the bottle she had taken.

"You won't exactly have the chance to unless you're planning on having affairs or a soon to be dead spouse that will then put you back on the market." She stated simply.

"Also tools to unnerve the enemy. I've heard that in lands far from here they use whistles that sound like the screams of the dead to terrify their enemies before battle. To shake them up. In other places they use chants and dances to accomplish the same."

"Putting others before yourself isn't usually ever rewarding in the sense of obtaining something. It is a sacrifice after all and sometimes they are in vain. Yet people still do them for other reasons. To help. To protect. To feel better about themselves."

"Nobody ever said that this specific decision would be the end. Only that as I stand on the precipice I choose where to fall. Do I leave or do I go. It is a decision but one that is not the end. When I said 'That is all it is in the end' was more of a figurative statement rather than a literal one."...

"Ah. That's.." She thought for a few seconds on a way to politely phrase what she felt about that. It wasn't easy given her blunt nature which shone through anyway as she couldn't think of a way to nicely say what she thought about it. Which meant she just trailed off. "I'm glad that you find happin...

"It's necessary for a medic to know if someone's been hurt so that's not bad. Might be an older thing. The not crying out in pain I mean." She said now trying to figure out where she had gotten that from.