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Hanako settled beside him, unlike the Iga her mind wasn’t on the proper propriety that should be seen to. Hika held the urge to keep old habits, but he had shed his potential title and he was just as much Iga as Hana was. Not. The thought often weighed heavily on him, and he wondered if he would ever not feel like a failure. Hana didn’t press those thoughts though, if anything she desiracted him from what once was and what could have been as she settled in the sand beside him.

Hanako had been here in the Armada nearly a year now, and Hika wondered if she had found a place anything like what she was headed towards when she had been paraded in front of the Iga. She seemed almost surprised that he asked about Hattori, but she really should have figured out of everyone the once heir would be his first appearance. He did remember one thing, no one had really talked to her to begin with back in Nippon, so Hattoris business certainly wasn’t anything new.

”Yes, he seems to have found quite a place for himself.” Not that Kaiyo was surprised. Sinobi, heir to the strongest clan in Nippon, it made sense he would be aiming for a position like Emperor. ”So, what place have you found?” Had she been trying to cozy up to the Armada’s heirs? And why was he so worried about the thought of her snuggled up in Mort’s wings?