Talk and walk was easily on Sakura's agenda. Ninjas talked while running at top speeds, when they needed to. "Did you want to head discussions?" she asked, aiming her question at Elisa. "I'm not a diplomat," she continued, making it a rather unaffected, blunt statement of her own capacity.

Don't elect her to do the speaking. With Marco regularly mouthing off in her head, she wasn't absolutely certain she could keep outwardly cool.