[D9, LA, Expecting, Open] ANTI-ONYX LEAGUE! ASSEMBLE!

[Matsu Kogo]

Kogo....was not expecting that at all. She looks at the Shinjo relic closely. "Talking dead birds?....An oni? Is this what burned the tents? I saw the destruction but I didn't see it extensively...." Then the words catch up with her. "You met with the Champion? You? And who else?"

[Yuzuki]

"I was there," she said, "He told me to shut up."

[Matsu Kogo]

Kogo looks puzzled. "Who..The Champion?"

[Moto Khulun]

"The Moshi, Mantis, Great Saksaha, Ide Samai, Shinjo Monkhbaatar, and myself," she says.

Kogo looks puzzled. "Who..The Champion?"

She chuckles and says "Yes."

[Yuzuki]

"Yeah. His name wasn't Eli, apparently."

Yuzuki clarified the matter in a way that surely could not possibly raise more questions.

[Moto Khulun]

"His name is Kiyoshi... once a Miya and earned that title by besting others with claim to be the Dark Brother's champion," she says.

[Matsu Kogo]

Kogo looked at the Mantis and then Khulun for a brief moment, feeling as though her brain was going to explode. She took a deep breath. Monkh-san....you didn't tell me. What else are you hiding?

"All right. So several representatives met the Champion. He wanted your aid?" She thinks through the conversation again, hearing it all over. "He wants their bodies."

Her own body goes cold.

[Moto Khulun]

"He was strangely open and forthright. It was odd... I offered to shake his hand for meeting with us and he warned against it. That struck me... I had jade though but still... not what I expected," she says.

"All the same he is evil."

[Matsu Kogo]

Kogo keeps her on with a truly masterful effort, but it is an effort. It does not show on her face however. Etiquette fluff roll, Khulun, one void: 5d10o10k3 23

"I am glad that he warned you against it. It could have harmed you with even a second of contact, despite jade." Kogo takes a deep breath. "So he met with several of you. He stated what he wanted. He touched no one. He left." She thinks a moment.

"No one attempted to harm him?"

[Moto Khulun]

"Only Massacre could harm him and he was not alone. There are times to fight, that was just a moment to throw our lives away for nothing," she says.

[Matsu Kogo]

Kogo's brain says a few things to that, but they stay inside her mouth. The logic of the statement is noted though. "There is truth in what you say. Did he speak of returning? Was any answer given to him?"

Have you sold your dead to the Shadowlands and will any of us survive if you have?

[Moto Khulun]

"We parted ways, the clan leaders will decide. The Mother of Unicorns means much to us all but the cost is too high," she replies.

[Matsu Kogo]

Kogo looks confused. "The mother of Unicorns....Do you mean the Champion told they had captured Lady Shinjo?"

No wonder they met with him...But STILL

[Moto Khulun]

Kogo looks confused. "The mother of Unicorns....Do you mean the Champion told they had captured Lady Shinjo?"

No wonder they met with him...But STILL

"Why else risk so much?" She replies.

[Matsu Kogo]

Kogo nods vigorously. "That makes a great deal more sense. So the decision is in the hands of your Leaders?" Does this mean we do nothing? Or does this mean we must act?

"And pardon the question, Moto-san, but has everyone been examined with jade who attended the meeting? And do the magistrates know anything of these matters?"