Feels like home. [O]

[Defiant]

Siobhan, as she took her first few steps into the village proper, found herself smiling a little. There was a thin layer of snow across everything: buildings, floors, lawns, even people! She looked up at the overcast sky and sighed longingly as she reminisced about her own home. It was still too warm to have anything close to the quiet tranquility of Yuki or Shimo, but at the same time it did still have that subtle detachment from the outside world. She took in a lungful of the crisp air and let it out slowly; her grip tightened around the sheath of her wakizashi as the cold wind filled her.

She had to admit, however, that other than it's location she was hardly a fan of this place; something about slums always made her skin crawl, and it wasn't the people; she'd dealt with enough slum-dwellers, criminals and monsters to get past the fact that humans are naturally fucked up, but it was the place itself. As she walked through the snow, thankful that she wore her regular boots here, her eyes glazed across the homes and the streets, and she growled internally at the state of everything. It might have been war-time, but she had a feeling that she wouldn't have been able to tell the difference any other time. Siobhan's right hand reached up to pull her jacket closer around her chest and she felt her movements naturally getting more defensive; the streets might have been quiet because of the incipient battle, but there was always a risk that someone would want to take advantage of the state of panic, and if it was going to happen anywhere it would be happening in the ghetto.

"Where the hell did Yoshinee go..." she muttered to herself as her pace quickened. Her eyes were now darting quickly between buildings and down side paths searching for her missing partner. "Aoba!" she shouted across the streets, "Aoba where are you!?" Siobhan stopped for a moment on the right side of a small four-way intersection. The streets were really only wide enough for sleds, and the sidewalks were wide enough for multiple people, but as it was all covered in snow most of the year, the actual difference as more theoretical than enforced; at least that's what she gathered by the constantly intersecting and overlapping footprints, dog-prints, sled-tracks and what looked like ski tracks as well. It looked more like a giant white X on the ground placed simply to separate the small homes. Each street was mo more than 6 meters across, and the side walks about two and a half.

[Ancestor Febrie]

Infratus got his orders from the messenger, it looked like someone was wanted. The old man, around 50 looked at the description given to him, a woman named Siobhan needed to be captured alive, for this task several councilors were to cooperate. This situation made him happier, due to his age he was not allowed to participate in the war and instead kept back to make order in the streets, it was given that no enemies could get inside the walls thus not giving him even a slight chance to fight, normally. Infratus, a veteran of many battles smirked, performed a few handseals slamming his palm on the ground, a white smoke cleared while revealing a medium sized penguin. "Hohoho, Infractus! You look old." the penguin spoke with a warm voice, they were old buddies. The councilor looked at Richard, a katana on the creatures back reminded him of the old times. Orange beak, white coat over the penguins body with light armor inside covering his whole body the penguin gave Infractus a thumbs up as they conversed "Yes indeed my friend. Today we shall relieve our glorious days as the Lighting Duo." Richard then received Siobhan's description. Both nodded to each other as they jump on the roof, from there they had a vast view of the streets, now they only needed to locate this woman, none of the other councilors were showing themselves yet. The Lightning Duo moved from roof to roof, they didn't meet anyone of importance but maybe soon they will. As the gates got rained by fire from catapults the weather began to change from clear sky to cloudy, they would both predict some snow really soon.