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Similarly, one supposed that there was a possibility that this development might bring suspicion on Daichi, given her occasional interactions with, or meetings with, the reader of bones and shells. - (Rebels of Gor, Chapter 20, Sentence #18)

I had gathered that her lapse had taken place on the outer parapet of the Holding of Temmu, where she had been detected casting a message, beribboned to facilitate its detection and retrieval, as Tajima had later confirmed my earlier speculation, to a confederate below. Tajima had witnessed this and inferred, naturally enough, that this was done on behalf of Lord Nishida, to whom she was supposedly contracted. One did suppose that her indiscretion would eventually be brought to the attention of Lord Nishida which intelligence, assuming him loyal to Lord Temmu, would terminate her usefulness in his quarters, as a spy. Similarly, one supposed that there was a possibility that this development might bring suspicion on Daichi, given her occasional interactions with, or meetings with, the reader of bones and shells. I suspected that the matter might not be as serious as Lord Yamada feared, and might require little more than some rearrangement of his plans, the ensconcement of a new spy, a fresh, suitable revelation for Daichi to find in his bones and shells, and such, but, as I knew the shogun, his displeasure was not too lightly brooked. He had determined to destroy Sumomo as a failed agent. As he had told me, he had many daughters. - (Rebels of Gor)