Akiko Kumakura felt the gust of air the mass of bodies made before they entered the courtyard. She wondered how many representatives The Order had sent.
They eventually came into view. The gust of wind was not from the small party the paramilitary organisation had sent, it was from the mass of guards that shadowed them. She wondered whether they were intimidated.
The courtyard burst into a flurry of motion. People were deciding they needed to get a closer view, or that they did not want to see it.
Akiko decided that today she would enter the court herself. After all, there was electricity in the air. She hurried through one of the other passageways that would lead inside the court.
She took her kneeling seat at the side of the court, on the eastern wall. Now she waited for the Taishogun, Shogun and The Order delegates to enter.