Kyuden Shika

"If we're lucky, a broken jaw. Then the crying will be unintelligible," he replied before another sip.

"That is true but then it would likely just be ear-splitting shrieking in a most unbecoming manner."

"I wonder if there are rules about that in the Crane handbook? How to cry in pain properly."

"Think that would be not crying at all. Pretty sure it's dishonorable to cry out in pain. Showing weakness and such."

"Probably never been clawed by some of the nasty shit out there. Sometimes a good cry of pain gets the adrenaline pumping."

"I think that's more of a war cry that's expected. Crying in pain doesn't often lead to adrenaline rushes in my opinion. The pain already does that. The crying doesn't. However we're taught to scream on the Wall in pain so the rest on guard would know that there's an attack being launched. Just goes to show the difference between the Crab and the rest of the clans."

"it's not uncommon in Lion units actually, those that are important enough to have dedicated medics," he says.

"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.

"Yeah. Though you wouldn't hear a Deathseeker let out anything but a battlecry. Probably just those types that don't understand that fear and pain are survival tools on a battlefield."

"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."