乙鍪・峰子
Pretty but not beautiful, young Otomo Hoshi is of average height, with the type of lean, muscular build shared by Miya palanquin bearers or Lion field messengers. Her pure jade eyes have a discerning, wizened gaze not expected in someone so young yet.  Her hair is a pure glossy black, the kind that almost seems to be a mirror.  Only with makeup does Hoshi's skin have the ivory shade of a courtly lady.  Though equal in height to her sister, she is also ever-so-slightly smaller in frame than her sister, which is perhaps the only physical difference between them.

   While Hoshi's sister is known as the quiet one, it might be more accurate to say Chiyowaharu is the quieter one. Hoshi is not particularly talkative, but she is apt to speak, when need be--and for both of the twins. Although she is old enough to bear the family daisho, which she does do, she still bears a child's name and still affects childish stylings to her hair and clothing.

   This is an odd way to be for a Chui (Lieutenant) in the 6th Legion, a Chui who has collected a few score of heads and won two duels.  But, members of the Imperial family can be just about as odd as they like.

  Unlike her sister, the elder twin (perhaps by a minute, but it counts) can hold her own in court.  If rumours are to be believed about the Mirumoto bushi she dueled, she may have goaded him into the circumstance. Details are unclear, but the scar on his mangled hand is certain enough.

  Hoshi likewise shows tolerance with the Hemin and Eta.  Though, unlike her sister, she very much dreads anything even resembling camping.

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Allies

Shosuro Yumiko (PC)
On a wet Spring in a Scorpion fiefdom, a local river nearly burst its banks with the yearly thaw.  Though it was there were known heavy snows in the mountains to the fiefdom's surveyors, it was Unknown to the traveling Kamewaharu, who received the local lord's hospitality until the river was passable.

  During this time, Kamewaharu meddled in the local politics, and she interceded in a murder trial on Yumiko's behest, when the accused Yasuki Suzu was acquitted on the testimony Kamewaharu gave of meeting the accused over ten ri (~25 miles) away from the scene of a crime.

  Sumiko crossed the river with Kamewaharu.