Board Thread:Important Logs/@comment-34754862-20170630233851/@comment-28929139-20170701012250

The guardian that had been assigned to make the call for Kideme and Zaiko was a quiet one. Kideme wasn't sure if it was for the sake of sobered humility brought on by the exams or the default nature of his person, but either way it made her wonder what lie ahead of them. His words of wisdom were met with naught but a furtive nod. With only the slighest turn of her chin, Kideme gave all of her prospective adversaries a full once over. She had perhaps at best a base understanding of all the ninja from Konoha...obviously. But the ones from Suna and Iwa, she was ambivalent, since one could give her trouble and...hadn't nearly most of the other village's inhabitant's been murdered? She hadn't been personally there to see it when it happened, but she had seen all the bodies, smelled the blood and sweet stench of decay, tasted the stale, fetid air. So if their Genin had not been survivors hardened by firsthand horrors, then they were groomed by those survivors and fast tracked with a possible mental advantage. But Kideme wouldn't let that stop her. The moment they had been given the signal and Zaiko signified that he would lead, Kideme nodded without protest. His byakugan was the best choice for seeing ahead of the terrain and it allegedly paid off when she saw the inhuman footprints, Kideme examined them. She checked to see if there was space between the toes, or if they came to a point, or a any presence of a heel to suggest hind legs of wolves, jackals, or the fuller print of a big cat or other type of beast. [DM needed for detail] Otherwise, Kideme followed Zaiko to the cave and if they were not first or eventually ambushed by the competition, she immediately began to gather sticks and small branches to burn. She allowed a strong flash of static electricity to channel through the stray wood to be dried and blanched of any moisture from the snow. It should also be noted that all through her trekking through the snow that while snowflakes would sit like tiny crystals on her clothing, it instantly melted when it landed on her hair or any parts of her bare warm skin. After kicking back a small pit of snow with her feet, she dropped the sticks onto it and pulled a small ruler length stick from the pile and began to roll it between her hands and blew her hot breath on it. Soon the friction would catch and a tiny flame would grow from the gust of her breath. Once it had been spread to the whole stick, she dropped it onto the pile to let the fire spread. Meanwhile, Kideme went to a tree near the back the cave and pulled one of the ants she found from earlier and left it onto one of the tree's branches. She quickly made the seals for Insect Spying and blinked a couple times from the double vision. It would take some getting used to, but with a slow gait back to the mouth of the cave, Kideme went inside it while she let the stark whiteness of the outside partially illuminate the relative darkness inside. Sometimes having double vision paid off! Hopefully she'd be able to see the enemy coming before they were caught by surprise. And with the ant being so tiny, it was unlikely that it would even be detected.