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All sentries had been cautioned to be especially watchful so that these infiltrators could not bring their unseen and unheard methods of death down upon anyone in the castle.

To the very best of your memory you cannot recall ever having seen a ninja—very few people ever had—but you know that they exist. Just last winter you participated in special training exercises designed to cope with these insidious killers, who had made their martial art of shinobi or ninjutsu, as it was more popularly called, the most dreaded skill a man could possess.

Ninjutsu encompassed a variety of specialized fighting and espionage skills that made the ninja one of the world's deadliest agents of death and destruction. Indeed, you recall hearing of the clever and terrifying exploits of famous ninja ever since you were a young boy.

How well you remember the look of terror on the faces of those persons relating the stories. They told of having seen ninja walk across the surface of water, of them remaining under water for a full day without surfacing, and of how they could walk and run with such stealth that they could approach people without being detected.