| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 12 | 147 | View more quotes about neither">Neither Lord Nishida nor Lord Okimoto were present. |
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| 12 | 144 | "My presence has been requested by Lord Temmu," I had said. |
| 12 | 145 | They had bowed briefly, and then turned and led the way into the castle. |
| 12 | 146 | I looked about myself. |
| 12 | 147 | Neither Lord Nishida nor Lord Okimoto were present. |
| 12 | 148 | I found this anomalous, for both commonly attended on the shogun. |
| 12 | 149 | Daichi, dour and gaunt, the reader of bones and shells, was in the room, sitting to the left of Lord Temmu, and, surprisingly, behind the shogun and a bit to the left, as well, was a contract woman, standing, Sumomo. |
| 12 | 150 | I recalled that Tajima, in his vigil on the outer parapet, had noted Sumomo's presence there, and had witnessed her casting something over the parapet, presumably to be retrieved by some confederate below. |