![]() Hearn gets around the formula by throwing plot-driven obstacles at every one of its elements. Eventually, of course, Takeo will return to confront Iida. By now it’s page 8 and the fun is only just beginning. Takeo, the sole survivor, flees and is rescued by the noble Lord Otori Shigeru. ![]() The Hidden are oft reviled and persecuted, and on page 3 Takeo’s village is wiped out and his family murdered by the evil land-grabbing Lord Iida Sadamu. ![]() They tend to stay out of politics and are generally left alone.Īll this is news to Takeo because his father turned his back on the Tribe and joined the Hidden, a weakly Christian-like pacifist sect of bamboo-huggers. Because of these skills, the Tribe are greatly in demand among the feudal lords as assassins and bodyguards. ![]() ![]() Sixteen-year-old Takeo is descended from the Tribe, a collection of families with hereditary super-ninja skills - preternatural senses and strength and agility, the ability to appear to be somewhere or someone else, and even to become effectively invisible by making it so that others just don’t notice you. Hearn follows the convention with which some readers might be familiar of taking a boy with an unusual heritage, then having him re-discover it and face his destiny. Across the Nightingale Floor, by Lian Hearn ![]()
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