All of our troubles seem to be dragged in with those ominous winds, don't they?
[He sips at his water, ice clinking as he rolls the glass side to side. A tattoo is perhaps a point of interest- Matoba is about to ask Norimune to describe it, but the detail he does let slip makes him pause.]
Jomon. [He repeats. How unexpected.]
That's quite a long way from the supposed heyday of Iron Bear.
[Kaneguma is what he actually says, of course, in their mutual native tongue. So, Matoba might know a little more behind all this than he is offering. His eye slides to the side and catches Norimune's gaze, his mouth set in a neutral line that is just barely restraining the curve of a smile.]
You said that you were not around in the Heian. Isn't that right? But surely you know of the old, famous tales. [A pause.] I imagine the blade that slew that monster could tell you some of what you want to know. I'm just a child of man...
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[He sips at his water, ice clinking as he rolls the glass side to side. A tattoo is perhaps a point of interest- Matoba is about to ask Norimune to describe it, but the detail he does let slip makes him pause.]
Jomon. [He repeats. How unexpected.]
That's quite a long way from the supposed heyday of Iron Bear.
[Kaneguma is what he actually says, of course, in their mutual native tongue. So, Matoba might know a little more behind all this than he is offering. His eye slides to the side and catches Norimune's gaze, his mouth set in a neutral line that is just barely restraining the curve of a smile.]
You said that you were not around in the Heian. Isn't that right? But surely you know of the old, famous tales. [A pause.] I imagine the blade that slew that monster could tell you some of what you want to know. I'm just a child of man...