The recent encounter with hostile ninja and the shinobi reputation for trickery has left you a little untrusting of your eyes, and you take a moment to focus your ki sight on the man in the door, half-suspecting that he might not be your master, but a disguised enemy.
Gained Ki Sight C
Your caution proves unneccessary - as soon as you channel power to your eyes, Lu-sensei's familiar aura glimmers into view. He's more weary than you've ever seen him, though still a long way from exhaustion, and there is a cloud of controlled pain about his left shoulder, with lesser spots scattered all over his body. There's no blood at any of those points, and with the possible exception of that shoulder, the pain-spots suggest nothing even as serious as a fracture, merely an old body's complaints about being dragged into rather more strenuous activity than it's accustomed to. Really, for a guy who was in a room when a bomb went off with enough force to shatter security glass and then helped fight off a band of ninja mooks, Lu-sensei looks pretty good. You have to wonder what the heck he did to evade the blast...
"Briar, is Shiden stable for the moment?"
"Yes."
"Then go with Sensei. Do whatever you can."
Growling something uncomplimentary about leaving a job half-done, Briar waves for Kasumi to stop, seals one more bloody puncture wound - one of the deeper ones, it looks like - and then zips out of the room. Your teacher must have his own ki sight going, because he absently ducks out of the fairy's path before disappearing after her.
"I am not overly familiar with the rules of... I believe 'triage' is the word I want," Altria says, pronouncing the Japanese term, "senbetsu," with some uncertainty, "but is the main goal not to keep the greatest number of patients possible alive, until they can receive more in-depth care?"
"All I really know about modern medicine comes from TV, movies, and checkups at the doctor's office," you reply, "but that sounds about right. Briar's got something of an all-or-nothing attitude when it comes to healing, though. I think it might have something to do with how a fairy's natural healing magic works." You pause, frowning, as the faint mental pressure of maintaining your ongoing spell slips away. Looks like you need more practice at concentrating - or perhaps at controlling magic at extended ranges. Maybe both.
Gained Mage Sense F
"Alex?" Altria inquires, glancing over her shoulder with slight concern. You don't answer her for a moment, focused as you are on invoking a message cantrip.
"Sorry about that," you apologize, as the minor spell takes effect and carries your words to Briar, Lu-sensei, and Master Jo, as well as the ladies in the room. "I just lost my handle on those bats. The swarm's going to break up in another ten seconds or so."
There is no immediate response from the hall, but Briar returns in short order, followed by Lu-sensei, Master Jo, and - supported by the latter, but walking under her own power - an unfamiliar woman wearing beige slacks and a dark green turtleneck blouse, both slashed and stained with blood.
Ayame breathes sharply. "Yuki?"
"Hey, Big Sister," the woman says with a shaky smile. Kasumi looks up, visibly startled by the term of address, but swiftly turns her attention back to her father when Briar snaps at her. "I heard you were in town, and thought I'd stop by to say hi. G-guess I wasn't the only one with that idea, huh?"
"...no, I suppose not." Ayame glances at the bloody holes in the other woman's clothing, and the intact flesh beneath. It's clear she wants to say something, particularly about the stain on Yuki's chest, near but not quite over her heart. The woman who doesn't look like a ninja notices the kunoichi matriarch's line of sight and does her best to straighten up and push out her chest proudly, almost like she's presenting a badge of honor; at the same time, she eyes Ayame's wounded arm and then meets her gaze, expression challenging.
"If you two are going to start comparing battle scars," Master Jo interrupts, "at least have the consideration to wait until Shiden wakes up enough to enjoy the show."
"Speaking of Master Shiden," Lu-sensei says, deliberately ignoring the glares the two women are now directing at his younger companion, "how is he doing, Alex?"
"Briar?"
"Four more wounds to go, then I can get him on his feet."
You repeat this for the benefit of the adults who can't hear the fairy, even if they can sense her presence - Miss Yuki gives you an odd look that seems to question your mental stability.
"On that note, Alex," Briar adds, "I had to drop a load of dust on the woman, there. Do you want me to do the same for Boss Ninja, here, or just get him walking with a lesser cure spell? Or are we going to carry him out?"
"I see," Lu-sensei says over Briar's comment. "And once Master Shiden is up and around, what is our plan of escape?" He glances at his fellow adults, and also at you. "I seem to recall hearing something about an evacuation by magic...?"