[Mm. Yeah. Matoba's feeling that tone, even if he's keeping it a little more reserved than Kimmuriel is.] Haha, I get the sense that if we are going to receive any such 'clues' at all, they will be in some equally vague format.

It's no 'fun' if they aren't sending us on a merry search, I suppose.

[Drop the breadcrumbs and let the new kids go wild. That was the sense he got from the Daitengu, more and more- that this was, indeed, some sort of test for the newbies. Except maybe it was a test for everyone else, too, considering what dire strain the last month had put on the entire Alliance.]

[Matoba's expression grows graver as he considers that, glancing back towards the scuffling going on on the Temple grounds.] ....The entire clan seems as displeased as we are about all this. It doesn't really matter what the other clans think, but if the Daitengu's attitude only does more harm towards the Alliance member-clans' perception of them...