[Day 3, Mid-afternoon] Tedium

[Jayant Utpal]

Jayant then looked worried, concerned, and perhaps a little desperate. "Lanka? Good. Good. I..." He stopped, looking around at the other Rokugani in the room. "You must help though. Lanka is the last. They need to be warned before it's too late. The Cultists are coming for the city. We should hurry."

Jayant was starting to breath more quickly, with more panic. "The heir. He is there. Last... last stand... gotta get them... get them... them out." He starts to get a little wobbly. His strength wasn't quite up to how excited he was getting. "Please... Kingdoms...dead..."

[Yoritomo Uminushi]

"Lanka is the last what...?" he questions with an inscrutable look on his face.

[Jayant Utpal]

"Pulse... city...Blood and fire... Blood and fire..." Jayant was clearly starting to lose it. "All that's left is blood and fire."

His eyes locked on Uminushi's and he could see the desperation in the man's eyes. "You have to help... The heir... the last Maharaja... Lanka..."

[Daidoji Fuichi]

Fuichi frowned in deep concern as the man started to freak out. He longed to extend a hand in comfort, but it seemed likely to make things even worse. Frustrated, he sat silently.

[Yoritomo Uminushi]

"I don't know what you mean by blood and fire...?" he asks with an arch of his brows.

[Jayant Utpal]

Jayant looks at the captain with a slightly more crazed look, he is clearly starting to have a breakdown. "Blood and fire! All that's left! Cities... fleets... people... fields... everything..."

[Yoritomo Uminushi]

"I see," he murmurs as he rubs his chin, "You should probably calm down. This flailing about isn't going to help you."

[Daidoji Fuichi]

Fuichi looks between the captain and the man, somewhat disturbed by the captain's distant handling of the situation.

With practiced care, he approached the man and with low-pitched, soothing words attempted to calm him down.

[6k3 courtier roll: 8, 1, 2, 8, 1, 6].

[Jayant Utpal]

Jayant looks at Uminushi. "Please.... You must help... "

Fuichi's words help to calm the man slightly, but the fact of the language barrier makes the task quite difficult and Fuichi can tell that the gaijin's heart is still racing.

[Daidoji Fuichi]

Fuichi looked over his shoulder. "Captain, I don't think that this excitement is doing him any good. His heart is absolutely racing, even now. Further questions could be dangerous."

In a smaller voice. "What is going on?"

[Yoritomo Uminushi]

"You should rest," the Yoritomo replies with a smile and a reassuring gesture, "We'll be in port tomorrow."

It wasn't a lie. It was open ended enough for the man to interpret it as he choose. Uminushi's gaze shifts to the Crane, "Hard to tell. It might be trouble and it might also just be a fever dream.

[Jayant Utpal]

Jayant nods slowly and lays back down in his cot, not asleep, but doing his best to slowly unwind himself again.

[Daidoji Fuichi]

Fuichi frowned. "I understand."