Phoenix Maplewood You stand before me? I'm impressed

She had moved onward quickly from the spot where she had fought and then punished the girl for her stupidity. She moved in complete silence, pausing at a stream to drink and ponder over all that had happened here so far. She had done nothing but fight, most of them wins but a few had been losses. She had saved a girl and gotten tended to in return. She had met Issun and made a friend who she sharer common roots with and now traveled with and had given an oath to. Yet something wasn't right with the small group she'd pledged herself to. They were peaceful, kind, pacifists and Minori was....Minori was a samurai who thrived in scenarios of physical challenge and bloodshed. How could she pretend that she would fit in any longer?

This question bothered her as the sun began to set beneath the horizon and she lowered her nose to track down some food. There was a scent of rabbit that she followed swiftly but that soon became blocked out by that of a male wolf. She continued onward more warily, each step falling silently until she crossed his path, lifting her head to stare at him in silence her nose still working out the whereabouts of her current prey.