"So I have," he laughed, before gazing at the ceiling in contemplation. A story appropriate for small children... Aha.

"Very well! Gather 'round, then, dear listeners, and I shall tell you a tale of a faraway land... of a palace beneath the sea! Of the eeevil sorcerer who cast upon it a terrible spell! And a humble maiden- who was not all she seemed..." A master minstrel he was not. But, Taiki liked to think, he knew how to make a story interesting. And the Shisui of the Violet Tides had a way of capturing the imagination without being too scary.