Maia, a professional assassin hailing from the medieval Sudanese kingdom of Alodia, is aiming her arrow somewhere in feudal Japan.
Maia was the protagonist of a short story I wrote back in 2018 titled Arrows of Alodia, in which she had to contend with a client who really, really wanted to cover up their tracks…no matter the cost. Think of her as being like a ninja of African descent.
(If that sounds far-fetched to you, remember that the Japanese warlord Oda Nobunaga actually had a samurai of African descent named Yasuke in his employ.)