Kamono Dogen

Thirty nights until the new moon, they said. I'm not the one who counts the days. I'm the one who keeps them.

• OrinCounting the days was always my job.
  Kamono DogenThat's exactly why I keep you close, Lady Orin.
• HachibeThat onmyoji fella's writing reeks of ink before anything else.

They say Kurama's mountain gate has stood shut for a thousand years. A gate, after all, is meant to be opened from within.

• SojoboThen you, knocking from outside, will never get in.
  Kamono DogenI've never knocked. I only wait.
• HachibeScattered salt in front o' the gate. Mind your step.