[h2]Honda Ami[/h2]

"Well, we can't do it with money, though shinai would probably be available somewhere as this is a pretty big city..." Ami said, thinking about what she knew of the rest of the world. Not much, to be honest, but she thought she'd heard something about kendo being practised outside of Japan? Getting an actual wooden sword would pretty much be a matter of finding appropriate wood and hoping that Musashi wasn't the only swordsman able to whittle himself a sword.

It was at [i]this[/i] point that the girl finally noticed the shady looking old man standing nearby, only able to ask him who he was and why he was there. [i]Unfortunately,[/i] like the entire rest of her conversation with Okita, she hadn't thought to speak in English.

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[h2]"Caster"[/h2]

"A name, yes... you can call me Abigail," the witch said after a brief period of thought. She had that little girl on the mind anyway, so what harm could it be to borrow her name? It wasn't like anyone could possibly draw a connection from such an innocuous name to Salem.