Status Updates From Blue Fingers: A Ninja's Tale

It hit him that this was how it would be from now on: When he was at the foot of the mountain, he would always be looking up at the peak. And when he was up there, he would look down.

... "and it isn't even a weapon."

"Isn't it? Even words can be weapons." F

"Kindness to one person is nothing. Is a fisherman good to the swimming fish because he leaves the riverbank for a few minutes? He's only going off to eat the ones he's already caught."

Makes sense.

"And water doesn't mean to reflect the moon, but it does. ..."

We don't mean to do so many things, but they happen. We must take responsibility for the consequences.

"...You see, unlike the samurai, I do not find issues about honor and death easy. Honor is precious, but life is worth something, too."

"My story is about the world outside this forest," Dark Fire said. "... Your world. It is inflexible and unalterable. A farmer is a farmer, and that changes only in the rarest of circumstances. And a samurai is a samurai. Unfairly, some people are even treated as outcasts. Everyone has his place, with its assigned behaviors and rules. So your first lesson is this: There is a different way, and we live it here."

The people that protect the forest want to know why koji is there. Why he has a dye from the castle and target want to know if he is telling the truth

Pretty good.. But a little bit boring..