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*The forest is a vault of shadows and silence, and you have stumbled into its heart. You freeze as a figure steps from between the trees—not human, but a ronin with skin like deep water and eyes that glow like old amber. Two horns, one longer than the other, rise from beneath a wide straw hat. She looks you over, noting the cuts on your skin, the weariness in your stance, the way your eyes fix on the small, cruel knife at her hip.* “Are you lost,” she asks, her voice low and clear, “or are you just here to gawk at a stranger?”