"Otherwise he'd stomp them silly and leave, of course! So they need that stupid chain, but I should be able to destroy it." Huashi squinted at the chain and hoped most of the obviousy magical chain had the magic in containing, not being too strong to break. Looking closely, one could barely see some shimmering kanji set around the manacle and down the links themselves every time the light fell just right or the horse shifted.

Looking over and down at Tobimaru, Huashi grinned and managed to soundlessly clap her hands.

"Oh, yes! I was gonna do something else, but I can save it in that case! Basically..." Another squint-eyed look at the camp and the guards and then turned to Kotarou and Tobimaru, brown eyes sparkling.

"You're probably hungry, Tobimaru, and they've got a nice bird cooking right there!" She grinned and then nodded to Kotarou. "I'm gonna circle around and use the tree over there," Huashi said and pointed to the large willow tree that stood halfway up the bank between camp and river. "I'm gonna do that right after Tobimaru starts running around, so they don't do anything if they get lucky, and when I do that you get to the horse, okay?" Huashi was crouched over, looking as serious as a usually very cheery, excitable girl could, scribbling a near-unintegible "plan" in the dirt between them.