"I don't intend to involve Naji in my rituals one way or another. She's been through quite enough. Is she not in our care?" Giri does not shout, nor does her face harden. She is simply speaking through her blush, through the touch, through the words of [i]good girl[/i] making her heart sing. This is the strange thing about hearts, after all. They can go through a lot very quickly. A heart can pound against your chest straining with desire and yet still call for you to be better. 

Naji didn't want to die. She didn't deserve either offering or guard duty. And maybe Giri had learned something. Less from Agata, who seemed to treat the whole matter of her courtesy as an option for those that pleased her. But from Piripiri and Kalaya. At any rate, her voice is firm and clear, and if the Red Wolf wishes to laugh it off, it will not be because Giri can use the girl in some way or another. 

She does have a ritual to do though. She needs a clearing, no roof, so she steps out of the pavilion, looks for the best space she can between tree boughs in this forest. Closer to the barge wreck, it downed some trees and will have to do.

She looks towards the sky and draws her sword, letting the raindrops fall about her, upon it. She holds it up straight, pointing to the heavens. Her head held high, she begins to pace, drawing a circle with the toe of her boot, then crossing lines through it, a triangle, then a star, inviting for a spirit that gazes upon the heavens to come down and inspect. 

Then she chants, calling out her supplications. With the rain, the wind, the wreckage she knows the spirits are busy. She offers her humble thanks for their work and asks if they would come to grant her a favor. Her collar jingles as she speaks, like a fancy cat prowling back and forth. But always her eyes are to the heavens and her sword is held high. Only when the spirit comes will she lower it across the ground before the spirit in a gesture of humility and beg her favor on behalf of the Red Wolf. 

[Giri will Commune with the unseen: 6+2+2=10. She will endeavor to learn from the unseen where Han is and to change the nature of the place to easily guide the Red Wolf to Han.]