I can smell them

I have drunk the sacred drink - as much as I can hold - to fortify my arm for the task I must start later.

I have Sparred, fought in the Arena, read the paper, and written the name of another ninja on a note page.

While I must eat, I save it for later. There are enough unknowns that it may be better to scarf down TACOs than have my usual meal.

For now, I wait and I watch. I wait in this stench and filth for the appointed time for the Hunt. I must succeed many times... 8, in fact, to prepare properly for my prey. Then I must hunt my real prey down, and drain them to their core.

For it is no ordinary prey I hunt; I can smell the scent of the first - The Prophet from here, and my Water is Red.