https://i.imgur.com/16PBl2x.jpg (released some time in the coming year. In between games) Of Yakumo's more commercially successful albums, Illusory Light is perhaps the most varied of her albums. Sing My Pleasure , Morning Star , and Song Of Scattering Reverberations have that powerful melody that ...

"Oh, I didnt know... did that happen during the fight?" she asked with some concern. Koyuki had taken quite some heavy hits during the fight, so if anything she had on her had shattered that made sense. Yakumo tilted her head to the side a little, studying Koyuki some more from that new angle while ...

"Ah, well... we ran into one another at the festival over a week ago. The one where the Scorpion were honoring their ancestors." She idly wondered if Koyuki had told them at some point, as she was bringing back the memories. It already felt like long ago now. "Random meeting, as we kind of ended up ...

Yakumo laughed a bit at that. "Honestly I wouldn't know. Never had to deal with law enforcement in anyway before to be honest, neither back home, or travelling around. Unless you count security detail, but that's about it." A naughty girl she might be, but overall the Spider diva was on the right si...

Her eyebrows rose a bit. "I... think I've heard of those," Yakumo's voice was a bit lower. "Places hidden from sight, where anything goes. Those kind of parties?"

Yakumo giggled softly, hands linking together behind Koyuki as she kept the light sway a bit longer. "I'm an expert at swaying, I'll have you know. My absolute killer move on stage." She wasn't like the Usagi Drop-boys who did crazy dancing or highly complex choreography on stage, as a Yakumo concer...

Yakumo at least held her chopsticks across her fingers, murmuring a polite "thank you for the meal". Having been raised by a priest, it was just second-nature for her to say it, even if many others were more accustomed to dig in. "I think it's been years since I've had nabemono," she said with a lig...

"Hmm... I suspect it is more the competition of one-upping one another. At least that's what I've seen elsewhere." She laughed a bit and looked at him with some mirth in her eyes while she continued to fan herself, the motion making the loose-hanging strands of her hair flutter in its breeze. "I tho...

"Maybe some do, but not all. Maybe some did, and then redeemed themselves." That was about as philosophical she could get on the topic. Ronin weren't a regular sight in Spider territories, and certainly not on Isora's Rest. "It's not really for me to judge someone on their past lives, only the life ...

"Mmhmm..." she pondered skirting around the issue entirely. "I've had the chance to spend some time with the Lord Magistrate. Maybe I'm not the best at reading people, but to me he doesn't seem to be responsible for this gaki. At least not by choice. The loss of his wife seem to have hit him hard, f...

"You're awfully short on words today," Yakumo remarked with a low chuckle, bringing her arms around Koyuki's waist with a gentle sway of both their bodies. Not that she wasn't used to her being less talkative, but it made her wonder what was on her mind today, and if there was something she wasn't p...

"Ahh... I had wondered if it was something like a secret Kuni-messenger service that alerted you guys to eachother's presence on a planet," Yakumo said with a laugh and brought her drink up for another sip. "But, mm, that doesn't surprise me. She's a good person, and she seems to like you two a lot....

"That is true. Someone will always be able to dig up the truth, sooner or later." Like she and the others had done. Though she had her doubts if the Scorpion wanted to admit that a Spider songstress, a Mantis shugenja, and a Kuni, had single-handedly walked into the Desolation and fixed their Gaki-p...

Crossing her arm across her chest, Yakumo touched Mineichi's hand with hers against her shoulder. "Yeah... some of it." Probably a lot more than he thought, and in some cases more than he knew. She averted her gaze slightly again, stirring the meat before picking it up. "And if I had something to do...

Meeting only silence, Yakumo felt... uncertain. Should she say something else, or should she just be silent too? Sometimes it was hard to read the emotions, to pick up on all the clues. She felt she had a good read on Koyuki most of the time, but having realised she had misread and misunderstood her...

She watched Koyuki leave and stepped over to the door, listening to the sound of receeding footsteps as she locked the door. A minute passed, and she was certain that Koyuki had gone. Her tired form slumped against the door and with some effort she turned around to place her back against it as she h...

"Doesn't that get a bit tiresome eventually though? How everyone always have to outdo or be even more clever than the previous one?" she asked with some curiosity. In her experience, it often led to people coming across as tryhards rather than doing something truly memorable.

Violet eyes shone with obvious impression at Koyuki's style of dress that day. Probably some of the more interesting attires she had seen her wear... sure, those nice dresses she had helped her put on for the formal parties were technicaly prettier, but this felt more like she was seeing Koyuki's ac...

"Mm, I'll have it sent over to you then." She hadn't thought of keeping those copies on her, unlike her own music. "Can't make much promise if the quality is any good though, as it was the first time I was capturing sound from an animal like that." Thinking of the first festival that she had attende...