[quote=Deathmaker]
"Greetings, ojou-san. Pardon me for the inconvenience of having to share a single meeting room. If you don't mind, I'd be glad to allow you to meet with Mitsumine Ryuunosuke-dono first, before I would seek his audience." Kitsune nodded to the lady. "Oh, pardon me for my manners. My name is Hatamoto Kitsune, a visitor."
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"My lord is most gracious to a mere keeper of books and numbers." Hana replied respectfully. This young man was interesting. Judging by the fan he carried and the retainers at his side, it seemed the heir to the Mitsumine was not the only young lord on these grounds. "My name is Hana, here to represent the Mitsumine Master of Coin Matsuran Tenzin. I thank you for your patience, but I doubt the words I bear are worth the same import as yours. If you so wish, I shall be the one to wait."

She had to admit, this was not what he expected the Boar clan to send to the new heir's coronation. Already she was beginning to picture the interplay of personalities collecting here today. Expecting the lord to assert his due precedence, she idly pulled out a stylus and a small vial of ink and opened her red-covered book in front of her to continue her musings on a new form of bookkeeping. Hana wondered if this lord would pay attention to what she was writing, and that it was in a cipher code unlike the usual forms of bookkeeping. Many lords saw themselves above the work of scholars and bureaucrats. Would this one think the same?