Unless the matter is extremely pressing and urgent, could I prevail upon you to course all your... concerns, about my blade, through me? For my part, I swear to be as completely truthful as is possible for me. You know the worth of my oaths, shisho. You yourself are Obrimos, and would understand more completely than anyone could. I too swore a personal oath to take care of my blademates' well-being.

[An extremely faint nimbus, only visible at this range to Tohru through the haze of cigarette smoke, appears around Taning. It is black thunderclouds alive with red lightning. Taning is unaware that he does this, again].