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Katori sipped tea from a wooden cup as she stared off. Her left eye twitched, and she blinked, breaking from her reverie. She turned her gaze on me. The haunted look in her eyes that I’d seen before was gone, but she still didn’t appear to be herself.
“The helmsman is correct,” she said. “There is an ancient temple under the school.”
“And it has magic items we could use?”
“That I do not know. I have never been down there before. My master forbade it upon pain of death.”
“It sounds like there is something down there, then.”
“Yes, there is something down there,” Katori said. “My people call it the enenra.”
something.“What’s that?”
“It is a powerful creature, one that has never been defeated.”
“How do you know it’s still alive? I imagine there’s not much food in an abandoned temp
