"Certainly," Nanako agreed, smoothly turning to the source of the shout, as if tending to the whims of the elderly was her sole purpose in life and the village hierarchy, instead of breaking people and prying out secrets. Her expression shifted from kindly and concerned to warmly delighted and very much less concerned. "Hoshigaki-sama! What an unexpected pleasure."

She had met the woman exactly twice before, both times when she had tagged along to watch her grandmother hit up the older clan head for a spar. It had been inspiring to watch, that level of destruction, and left her with no small amount of hope for her own abilities as she got older.