Condolences to the Bat Champion

[Mirumoto Shigen]

~A weathered and scarred, but clean and well groomed Samurai getting close to his retirement age leaves a letter and gift for the Bat Champion. His armour is plain, but under it he has the faded colours of the Dragon. He is calm, and very polite to the servants.~

I would leave a gift for your Master. Word of the tragedy and outrage in Toshi Ranbo have reached even my distant ears. My heart is stirred with sympathy and righteous indignation at these events. I wish to share the former with your Lord.

~The gift is fine Tea from Crab Lands, rumoured to have medicinal properties. Not enough to insult the physicians caring for the Champion, but enough to show awareness of his plight.~

~The Letter reads:
Esteemed Lord of the Komori,
I must beg your indulgence, as I am a Warrior, and am not given to the finest use of poetic words.
It is with growing horror that I see great and wise figures such as yourself targetted by the vile machinations which, as you warned my kin, conspire to set the Empire at it's own throat. That this attack happens so quick upon your messengers conveyance of your most sagacious observations regarding the Hidden Hands at work, serves to punctuate and give context to this dire warning. I fear there are already many in powerful places who are either complacent with these hands, or refuse to acknowledge them. Yet there are still some, in places great and small, who have seen the wisdom Komori-Dono has, and are still searching for the true threat. When it reveals itself fully, we will be ready.
Thank you for sharing your insight with my Clan. When the time comes, may it be repaid with steel against those who have struck against you.
Atsumura Shigen~

[Komori Yukio]

Later that evening, Komori Warai, Daimyo of the Komori family and Champion of the Bat Clan, breathed his last.

For three days and nights after, Kyuden Komori was unreachable as the winds howled, the surrounding seas heaved, thunder and lightning raged, and the shrieks of the komouri filled the air.

And so the priests of the Bat Clan grieved.

[shinguma]

A Large Man walks into wearing Bone White Heavy Armor, with a Jade Green colored Shoulder emblem, This Man’s foot falls heavy also most like thunder in this quite Court Room.

I’m the Great Khan’s servant. Moto Kazehito leader of the WhiteGuard

We have heard your requests Komori Warai. But given the current state of my Clan & my Khan, this not the way to conduct such delicate court actions. Many seek the right way and not the wrong, none the less; I’m here in this court to pay my respects also. Is there a Second to the Champion I may speak to about what was said in Shiro Moto

[Ichiro Kojuri]

A man in simple Badger clothing walks to the court undisturbed by the presence of higher authority around him. A scout, a courier by the looks of him with a large package wrapped in cloth of badger color. Went straight near to the one in charge of the court and bowed low, enough to almost touch his forehead on the floor and said.

'My lord Ichiro Kojuri-sama sent his condolences to the Bat clan and honor the loss with a gift.'

The courier laid down the package and unwrapped it.

'It is my lord Ichiro Kojuri-sama's favorite Ono used in the recent yobanjin war where both him and the late Bat clan champion served together.'

The courier bowed low once more, stood up and silently left the court.