Guide to Muses.

  All the worlds a stage and we are it's dedicated players.........  Weare the tellers of tales....singers of songs......All that which we experience move from mind to pen then to paper........All is written so that we can tell the tale and save the next kingdom from suffering the same fate as kingdoms past.....We are everywhere...recording all we see for everything is art and art is our lives.....
   Our mindset on life? Come closer for I have a tale to tell of a younggirl named  Ri Hotei a muse of olden days   Ri Hotei lived in the residence of a geisha...Her personality was quiet and she was not tainted by the evil ways of the house. The way
she moved and laughed was sweet and graceful and she moved the hearts of a ll who saw her.
   She composed poems, wrote essays, and embroidered beautifully.  She was 18 years of age and always grieved over her situation.  But even while she led this existence of dust made to dance by the wind, she remained pure and untainted.
   One day, when she was sitting in a reverie after putting on her makeup, she heard quarreling voices from outside her window.  She
hurriedly put on her gown and went outside. A taoist preist and a customer had been fighting.  The beaten customer lay beaten at the
bottom of the stairs.  Hotei asked a familiar Shorin monk to help the customer.  The Taoist priest lost to the Shorin monk and ran away with his tail between his legs.
   Hotei invited the customer into her room and asked the reason for the fight.  He answered, "He has been my archenemy for many years.
   Thank you for saving my life.  Io show my appreciation I would like to present you with 10 pieces of silver." Saying this, he grabbed his bag with both hands, pulled out some money, and put the silver on thetable.
   Hotei laughed and said, "Someone who does not lend a hand to justice is a coward and one who does not save a dying man goes against the ways of nature. Do you not think of me as a human being?"  And with this remark she refused the money
   We seek the friendship of all and hold no animosity towards any subpath.....We thrive to extend our network throughout all in the land.

Author: GuardianIV