"Yes, and let her probe your nature chakra to get a safer orientation to the concept - I'm aware the different traditions might feel different, but it'll be closer than anything else we have." She runs her hand through her hair. "I also want you on frequent sweeps for changes in nature chakra concentrations nearby - and I'll talk to the other two Force users about doing the same."

"I'll put a couple of the jaguars on it," Elaise says, biting her thumb and summoning.

"Oh, good idea."

Cats from nowhere. And they feel quite real, as well. Wonders never cease.

Elaise explains to her two summons the situation.

"Shinrei, can you show them where they can wait out of everyone's way?"

"Of course."

To that, then - the gardens here are a decent size, so a lesser used corner might be best...

She makes sure the two jaguars are settled in alright, then goes to check on Elaise and Occlus.

They're meditating, slightly apart. Elaise is beginning to show the ears and stripes of her sage mode-

While Occlus's eyes are glowing faintly purple beneath closed lids.

Interesting. 

She doesn't interrupt, though she does watch briefly - Elaise is always a delight like this, and she could use the mental balm - 

But if they're deep in it and not done soon, she leaves to return to her other duties. 

They don't seem to be waking at her presence.

She'll leave them to it. 

She does occasionally check on them - and the jaguars - and lets the guards handling coordination know to fetch her if Elaise needs her, even if Shinrei's in a closed meeting (and updates the Mizukage and the other advisors about the issue, and updates the sensor teams about the jaguars and the possibility of nature chakra...).

It's a busy time. 

In about an hour, Occlus and Elaise come to report a successful test.

Elaise was unable to detect Occlus spying on her.

"Good."

"I've already gotten clearance from the Mizukage to try, if you feel comfortable with it."

"I see no reason for hesitation."

"Alright."

"Do you need anything else from us?"

"Not as long as the room I was using before is still available."

"It is."

Occlus will retire thence.

And stretch her senses out, across the water, across the continent, to the mist-shrouded country...

And in she slips.

The rain is constant, here, a vicious downpour - high winds -

And then an eye. Sunlight, and stillness, and a flourish of life upon a massive lake - it'd be an inland sea, if it wasn't fresh water - where much of the rain drains into. The village feels different from the others - it's industrialized, for one, with skyscrapers jutting into the cloud level from the single bit of rocky ground at the center of the lake, with waterwheels along many of the canals. The vast majority of the country's population seems to live here, hundreds of thousands of people.

And, at the very center, in the highest tower, an enormous nexus of nature chakra. Perfectly still - but echoed in six other bodies throughout the city, who are in apparently constant communication. The city is buzzing with activity, shinobi moving among the floating islands on the lake - they, at least, use normal chakra.

There's other odd things. The bones of the city are metal - ancient, but entirely undamaged by time - there's tall buildings that emerge from the lake bed, their roots hundreds of feet below the silt, which seem to be used as the centers of neighborhoods, their scaffolding used for apartments and gardens.

Much of what isn't metal is... Paper, apparently, making up walls in the reclaimed buildings and much of the structure of any newer construction, huts and boats and floating platforms.

And every scrap of structural paper in the city thrums with a slightly different, very subtle energy. Some of it much like the seal work Tobi has shown her, some of it more like the diffuse saturation of intent in the rain, all woven together.

Small wonder no physical spy has returned from this environment. Occlus drifts along, counting strengths, total forces, any other oddities she can sense.

Exact strength of their forces is hard to estimate - they seem to have nearly universal education in at least basic chakra control, and that makes the gap between soldiers who could be called up for a foreign invasion and the people who'd stay behind (but might help make an invasion even harder) less clearly visible. There's still some data Occlus can parse, though - there's a realistic upper limit on how many people they could put on a foreign campaign, and everyone under about forty feels...

Well. Unblooded, really. It's entirely likely they don't actually have the logistical ability to pull off a full military campaign, and she's not actually sure how they'd go about transporting an army anyways - there's a river from the lake that pours toward the sea, but there's no roads from the lake to the border, just mud, and the river is glut with water, fast flowing and hitting several waterfalls and rapids along its course.

They do have a good number of notably powerful shinobi, but the person at the center of the storm and the person controlling all the paper are far ahead of the pack, there - the others would be on even ground with Kiri's more ordinary jounin, and the village has very few old enough to have ever seen any actual campaigns, assuming they actually have kept to their reported total isolation.

Occlus withdraws from her trance, and gets up to convey this information.

It seems likely that any threat Ame poses will not be conventionally military, but along the lines of the vision and the typical Akatsuki mode of operation; overwhelming power concentrated in one or two individuals.

Easier in some ways, harder in others... But overall preferred, Shinrei thinks - they have a lot of powerful individuals themselves, and they'd rather be able to have the vast majority of shinobi on evacuation in the case of a city-scale threat. 

It does mean some of the international balance of power they use in threatened wars is disrupted - usually, they'd be able to count on their enemy's awareness that the other countries would pounce on their unprotected flank if they came out in force... Though... If the maintainer of the storms leaves, especially if both their apparent powerful shinobi come to Kiri...

Well. Konoha's been made aware of the issue, and the jinchuuriki networks means Konoha could be instantly updated if Ame's guardians move, and Tobi is very sure Konoha is at least motivated to get a spy in, even if the Hokage is disinclined towards invasion. (They're also discussing more direct help - the Hokage doesn't want to preemptively peel away Konoha's defenders, of course, but after some tense negotiations both villages have settled on a mutual defense agreement against the Akatsuki, and Konoha is quietly recalling the Hokage's brother to their village.)

(Kiri has also been identifying other targets within their borders, of course. Their village isn't the only place the Akatsuki might strike.)

And with their likely aggressors narrowed, they should devise countermeasures.