"We'll start on emergency preparations, then," the Mizukage says, "In case this is imminent."

"Is there anything else you could do to help in the meantime? You or a member of your party, that is," Shinrei adds.

"My Ani may have additional thoughts on your defensive preparations."

She nods. "I've fought wars before, at least."

"That could be helpful, yeah." 

"Will you need a quiet room or the like?" she asks Occlus then. 

"Yes," she nods.

They can get that set up for her, then. 

And she will begin her meditation.

She knows the approximate location of the country now...

And once she looks, it's very hard to miss. Or... Very hard to miss the way a haze is drawn over the entire place. It's not just an obscuring shroud - though it is that, too, foiling the senses as surely as storms foil the sight.

It feels almost alive. Watchful. Protective, and waiting.

And it's - subtle, this isn't the sort of chakra she's felt anyone else draw on, it's a thrum like the natural mists have, like the waves and the ocean, as if someone gathered the undercurrents of wind and rain and stone and breathed intent into them. Or as if a typhoon swirled around the country and decided, you know what, this is a pretty good place to retire to, and simply never swirled away.

It's... She can sense it in the Force, but... Chakra is sideways to the Force in some respects, and this is... Not precisely sideways to chakra, but diffuse where chakra is concentrated, flowing away from attention where chakra turns toward it. Still where chakra moves, slow where chakra's fast.

She's having trouble getting any precise information about the storm at first brush, and it's obscuring everything within it - but the Force is sideways to it, and Occlus could, probably, pierce through it.

Intent, will is more visible in the Force than whatever this thing is doing -

It might notice her if she pokes it too carelessly, or react even if it's not sapient - it's responding to even more subtle perturbations, to the barely detectable ebb and flow of the winds, to the small bright highlights of living chakra that come near its borders. (All small animals, currently - and it seems more sensitive to those than many trained and generally alert Force users would be.)

...Interesting.

She sends her presence creeping around the edges, skirting over the top, probing for weakness, blind spots. Finding none, she pulls back to her body to deliver an initial report.

"A shroud of living mist," is the way she describes it. "Sensitive to even the smallest animal crossing its boundary. I could penetrate it, but I cannot say that I would go undetected in so doing."

"...Did it feel like it was made of normal chakra?"

"It did not."

...Hrm.

She asks a few more questions about it, then - "Nature chakra."

"...Shit..."

"A greater power than we were anticipating?"

"The Rinnegan alone is already pretty 'well, shit.' But nature chakra - that's rare, and supposedly limited only by a person's capacity to hold it without turning to stone. You can't get chakra exhaustion, because it isn't your chakra."

"You normally can't gather nature chakra and move at the same time - and it's supposed to be hard to use techniques and gather at the same time. But given that typhoon has been over Ame without cease for twenty six years, either they have a monk whose sole job is maintaining it - who hopefully won't leave - or someone is cheating outrageously."

"Given what is already in play, I would guess at the latter."

"Me, too."

"This... Isn't very good, but - Elaise can use nature chakra, and she might be able to orient you to it more."

"Then I will speak with her before probing further."

She nods and sighs.

"And we can put Elaise to on and off monitoring if there's a gathering of nature chakra moving towards or rising near us - it's likely the technique you described requires a lot of it, and nature chakra would be the easiest way to hide yourself from our normal sensors, once you knew the trick of using it."

Occlus nods.

"Let us seek her out."

"I've already woken her up, so..."

To the general rooms where the more miscellaneous jounin are preparing assorted contingencies in case this comes today. 

Elaise is there.

"Shinrei."

"Elaise."

"I need you to hand off what you're doing - we need your sage abilities, as soon as possible."

"Understood." She gets one of the other jounin to take over for her, and stands to join Shinrei and Occlus.

To somewhere quieter, then, the closest meditation garden to the Mizukage's Tower. She relays the situation once they're secure there. 

"...So you want to test if I can pick up Occlus doing her sensor thing while in sage mode?"