[quote=Heyitsjiwon]
Ryuu then turned to Hana and said "Well, both of our jobs are now really about to start. Tell me while we wait for the dignitaries and diplomats to arrive. What did you think about the heir to the Boar Clan?" Although it seems like it, Ryuu was not just spending this moment to simply create conversation. This was the first of Hana's tests. Ryuu was a person who could not trust someone until he learned about how a person thinks or usually acts. Therefore, Ryuu was going to pay close attention to how Hana was going to answer to this seemingly casual question.
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"He was honest my lord." Said Hana, eyes firmly locked on the paper in front of her as she was rapidly writing down a summary of the transaction and meeting. "And I do not say that lightly sire. I felt he was telling you no falsehoods about himself and what he desired to achieve here, an unusual thing to see for a person wise to the ways of merchants such as I, but I felt it was so. But such traits do not make a good noble, let alone a man of the Boar clan or its heir, and one can understand why the heir to the clan was sent to learn from us, when you have become quite a leader regardless of isolation. I think there is much you can teach him my lord, and not just fighting. He is someone worth keeping an eye on, if only to gain a better appreciation of who he really is. I cannot say anything more besides that until we may meet again."

Hana gently blew upon the ink on the paper to dry it, before holding it up to show her lord she had wrote an abbreviated transcript of the meeting for his future reference, mostly several points on what Kitsune asked for and offered. With another transaction entry marking the acquisition of the medicine and an approximated value of silver below the recording, once again in a double-entry with notations along the sides. She then set the paper aside and removed another piece to prepare to record the next meeting, before gesturing to a maid to get more paper. This was going to take a while.