She didn’t have the farmers look though. He could see a few scars on her face under her eyes, and her nose was slightly bent from being broken at le...st once. Her eyes were dark and brooding, but he could see smile lines that at least gave her beauty when the rare smile lit her face. Her children though told the real story of her life. Each was different in looks and build. The oldest, Blasco he later learned was eight. His father had been a bounty hunter and had taken her first master away for. ‘Michael has landed, his feet tread across the earth, here.’ Onji’s quiet statement was lost to the wind which howled up and over the cliff beneath the citadel. ‘Onji-San.’ Turning away from the battle of rock and water which played out endlessly beneath him, he regarded Sin-Cho. Her stance was one of quiet contemplation, strong but open. Her ebon black hair flowed down from her face in gentle waves of onyx silk. At five foot two she was considered tall … but that, just as the hair and her. It’s not just a privilege, it’s a responsibility.”I nodded. “Dalton told me I was responsible for Emma.”He nodded too. “Yeah, she may not be allowed to arrest you or your Stirpe for anything, but other House leaders can. One thing I’ve learned is that there are a lot of things you can be arrested for as a House Leader that a normal Magus would never be arrested for.”“Such as?” I asked.“Not keeping up with your responsibilities,” he said. “That’s a big one. It’s a tough job, mostly because you. It is bigger than what a man can walk from one summer to three more summers. Our place, it is called a planet, is about large enough that a man could walk around it in three years. You could walk from here to the east where the sun comes up and keep walking and you would end up back here three years later. This planet is like a ball, like the ones that children play with, but much, much larger.“This other place that is so large is also like a ball but so much bigger than this planet. Now the.