Wu shrugged and smiled.<br/><br/>"We are not all as we appear, or were not, and may yet be more...or less.  Who can say what Heaven may decree for us?  I was not always the bumbling vagabond..."<br/><br/>His face fell for a moment.<br/><br/>"Yet I prefer this life, for reasons you seem to understand full well," he added with a nod to Madame Shu.  "Though never so lofty, it is good to be among people instead of above them, looking down."