Hokuto had learned to ignore the sound of fights, but she nearly dropped her juice at a particularly loud shout; she looked up, and when she saw the riot starting to break out simply went very, very still for a moment. This kind of thing wasn't supposed to happen during the day.

After a long pause, she snapped out of it and scrambled onto her chair, then a clear spot on the table to get a better vantage point. She had no idea what anybody in her group was doing, and she needed to know before she did anything.