Tatsu was an Asian male. All his life he had been a serious student of the martial arts, as he had been raised in Japan, by The Foot Clan. He stood across from Pimiko, the daughter of his late master, Oroku Saki.
Tatsu had been Saki's right-hand man. Saki even trusted Tatsu, sometimes even more than his own daughter.
"What are you trying to say, Tatsu?" Each syllable of Pimiko's becoming more ominous.
"Ugh, Pimiko, only calmness will help."
"Don't patronize me," she slammed her fist onto the table between them. "Tell me what happened to my father!"
Tatsu hesitated. He couldn't believe the reports himself. He secretly agonized at not being there, Saki had sent him out with half the Foot in search of the turtles. "The reports said...an angel took him away."
"Come now...an angel? Angels are as real as the Loch Ness Monster or Bigfoot."
"Well, that is what was told me. What are you going to do?" Tatsu asked a loaded question that she wouldn't catch. He was checking to see Pimiko's plan with The Foot. She had the right to declare leadership, but women weren't leaders. He would either submit or challenge.