<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/0/0b/The_Winged_Prince_by_keiiii.jpg)</div><strong>Lai Aan/Graceful Willow (Sidereal Mentor)</strong>(https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LpveYLLszo2ismqKz7geNpSMAEuEj7zI0OtnDQKNO5A/edit)<br/><br/>In Yuu Shan—the City of the Gods—Graceful Willow placed a calligraphy brush and called upon a messenger spirit to deliver the paper work he'd just completed to the desk of a god elsewhere in the Cerulean Lute of Harmony to cosign and file.  The sidereal was heart achingly beautiful, with delicate features, long hair, and toned muscles.  Many maidens had swooned into his arms over the centuries, and his dances had made hardened war gods quietly weep.<br/><br/>Willow's eyes fluttered shut and his perspective extended across worlds and miles alike.  His pressence came to rest in an ebony coin tucked into Cynthia's bodice.  He looked out over land and water alike and gave an excited grin.  For several moments, Willow entertained the notion of teleporting there instnatly and—for the first time in centuries—setting foot on the island that was his secret project—that was becoming increasingly central to so many of his plans...<br/><br/>To<em>the</em>plan.<br/><br/>Willow shook his head.  Now was not the time.<br/><br/>The beautiful vizier reached into his robe and touched a blue tattoo on his hip.  Cynthia could feel the matching tattoo on her own hip warming, feel the phantom tingle of her master's loving touch.<em>”It begins, my Cynthia.”</em>Willow whispered to his concubine.<em>”This island you have reached—and it's people--in many ways holds the key to creation's salvation.”</em>