Kagura takes a few seconds to study the image of the Array and think on the theory behind it. Five layers, stacked so as to achieve maximum security, guarding a single being and venting excess energy into the surroundings. She doubts such a thing is within her capacity... but then, that's the point. "Figure it out yourself." A test, of course. Everything is a test. It's frustrating, really.
None of those thoughts are visible on her face, however - she reads the scroll, pausing a few seconds to contemplate the magical image, then rolls the scroll up and stores it in her robes, all without twitching an eyebrow. Supressing another yawn, she finally manages to shake off the fatigue. She doesn't remember tonight's nightmare anymore, but the effects it had on her sleep have lingered for longer than she would have liked. Finally, she nods to Mira.
"Let us meet at the top of the mountain then, du Vaul-chan. I'll tell Uramote-san to take your portal instead if I see him on my way up." With that, her hair and uniform start fluttering, buffeted by a sudden wind, then she is gone in a gust of violent wind. She quickly catches up to Rinzen, and slows down briefly to match his pace and tell him,
"You will be faster if you take the portal that du Vaul-chan has prepared." Having relayed that message, another gust of wind blows, strong enough to pull a fair number of leaves from the trees, and Kagura accelerates again with a loud
bang and soon disappears from view among the forest.
With everyone else out of sight and running to the mountaintop at full speed, Kagura allows herself to furrow her brow. She doesn't have much time to think on the matter, but that's just as well. The Itachi-Mai style requires the ability to think quickly and make split second decisions. If the mind is slower than the blade, the best-case scenario is losing only an arm or a leg. That is why heirs of Yayoi are trained from the instant they learn to stand on two feet. Everything - every technique, spell, or mystic seal - employed by Yayoi has been patched together out of bits and pieces of magical traditions, martial arts, and natural magic such as youkai abilities from all over the world, combined in such a way as to create the best possibly synergies between the disparate methods for one singular purpose. In a way, the Grandmaster's Array is the perfect and original example of this. The combinations cannot truly be called Japanese, Chinese, or even Western, and the end result is so complicated that no-one who has ever studied anything else or even just started training too late could ever hope to master the style. The various vows and laws are similar. The descendants are raised to accept them as nearly equivalent to laws of nature. This is an issue that shouldn't even have to be thought on. The mixed child must be stopped, and Suzhen kept inside the seal at all costs. But...
No matter. The time for thinking is over. Taking a step forward, Kagura leaps off the wind current she rode to the peak and decelerates on a different current. She lands on the highest point of the mountain, with nothing in the way of conservation of momentum or the like - aside from the little remaining snow being flung through the air by her arrival, there is no sign she has ever stood elsewhere. Overseeing the landscape, she looks out for the rest of her group as well as the arriving child. But the doubt that even her ancestor expressed and the words of Xiao Quing nag at the back of her mind. What did really happen back then? Was Suzhen really dangerous, or imprisoned only for her affair? Not that that is not grounds enough, she swiftly corrects herself halfheartedly. Still, the curiosity is there, and so she starts extending her senses into the past, towards the sealing and, more importantly, the Snake Spirit Bai Suzhen.
[spoiler]First of all, spending my single Hero Point to shake off the Fatigued condition, leaving me with zero left.
Next, Kagura will take a Full action for an Accelerated Move to reach the mountaintop in a single round (500 mph at quadruple speed makes 2000 mph, more than enough to cover the last mile in under six seconds).
Finally, I'll give Postcognition another try and look for clues as to what Bai Suzhen really was like. An Inu Yasha-style youkai/demon, or a Touhou-style youkai/demon?
Here, have a Concentration check to activate and a Notice check to see something useful.
Concentration, Notice (1d20+10=26, 1d20+10=23)[/spoiler]