Description: "I should have got to you first, Takeo, "Kenji grumbled. "Then you would never have become a lord, never been tied to Shigeru by bonds of loyalty. You would be Tribe through and through. You wouldn't think twice of taking off with me now, tonight." "If Lord Otori had not got to me first, I would be dead!" I replied fiercely. "Where was the Tribe when the Tohan were murdering my people and burning my home? He saved my life then. That's why I cannot leave him. I never will. Never ask me again!" Kenji's eyes went opaque. "Lord Takeo," he said ironically. The maids came to spread the beds, and we did not speak again.

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