[color=gray][center][h2]Akeno Kudo[/h2][/center][/color] These other Communicators sure were an eclectic bunch. The kind of tricks they could pull; summoning bandages from nothing, creating magic out of music, shape shifting, and an unbreakable guitar? They were all a far sight more grandiose than just imparting knowledge, though the alien instincts and memories in her head were anything but mundane. Akeno walked over to the cliff edge and peered down at the valley hundreds of feet below and the ostentatious palace that was their destination. There was no way down the sheer drop, other than the one that the others had created for them. It occurred to her that had she not run into them here, then she would have had no way down from this ledge by herself; she hadn’t thought to bring any climbing gear with her, only winter clothing for the cold, had wouldn’t know how to use it even if she had. Her god had led her down a path that she had no ability to reach the end of. Had it known she would meet others along the way, or has this been a test of some kind? She let out a sigh. Takemikazuchi had made it clear, during their first conversation, that it did not consider her worthy; her being selected as a Communicator had sounded like something that the god was forced to do, his arm twisted by circumstance more than anything else. Akeno wouldn’t put it past him to place roadblocks ahead of her, expecting her to either figure a way out herself or fail. Or die. Well, she expected to have another conversation with him soon; in person this time. They could hash this out then. Once the first person had descended the bandages, Akeno followed suit. She’d never been climbing before, or abseiling; she clutched the makeshift rope in a death grip the entire way down the Cliffside, but both her grip and the bandages themselves held under she found her feet on solid ground. She stepped away to give the next person down room to stand and turned around to look at the palace from a much more pleasant vantage point. [color=gray]“More people here than I expected.”[/color]