Odd... She thought these military types liked to be the one in command, barking out orders simply because they can.

[color=a2d39c]"Fire?"[/color] Juno looked behind her, at the plumes of smoke too close for comfort. [color=a2d39c]"And the three men... No, we get to the village, for all we know those were the very same persons who set off the fire, and that monkey thing may be in league with them. Forest fires move very quickly, or so I heard, so let us not stand around here, lest we be engulfed in flames ourselves."[/color]

Then again, there was no real guarantee the village would be friendly to them at all. At best, the villagers will be very uncooperative. At worse... well, she could at least try to hold them back long enough for the young people to escape.

A strange feeling of dread came over her as she anticipates being met with hostile villagers, that feeling growing stronger the closer they got to the village. Oni weren't usually regarded well by the general people who believed in them after all.