<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/9/93/Lishin.jpg)</div><strong>Name :</strong>Judge Fu Li Shin<br/><strong>Element :</strong>Fire<br/><strong>Location &amp; Time :</strong>Festival market, evening<br/><strong>Tagging :</strong>Heini, open<br/><br/><hr/><br/>The wealthy merchants could afford real estate in the well lit plaza, but not all were so lucky. In the dim back alleys and with wagon wheels rutted in the mud, poor farmers and basket weavers plied a less extravagant trade. Judge Fu Li Shin paused at the roadside to regard a hand-pushed wagon laid careful with painted pottery. Pulling her silk half cape tight to her slender body let a little of the festival lights spill over these humble wares. "What are you selling, here?" she asked the small woman dressed in nettle cloth. "These look like Gong ceramics. You should be displaying these proudly in the plaza." She savored making the merchant squirm.<br/><br/>Li Shin leaned over the wagon to claim a little bowl. How audacious a thief would have to be to disturb the purse just barely peeking under the hem of her half cape, snug against a backside tense as steel, nestled between the fangs of daggers. Li Shin turned the bowl in her hands. "No mark? How curious." Her hands positioned on the ceramic curve as though she might close it like a book. "The custom of the Emperor's kilns is to mark each piece. Do you know why?"<br/>The seller shook her head quickly. Li Shin moved closer.<br/>"To prevent inferior castings poisoning the people of Pai Sun." In Li Shin's grasp, the bowl split down the middle and sent chalky dust and porous fragments raining into the wagon. The merchant coughed.<br/><br/>"As I thought. Selling counterfeit pottery is a crime." Li Shin stole the merchant's wrist before she could run, and she drew the small woman close. "Do you know what the punishment is for forgery of Imperial goods?" But before they could go anywhere,  Judge Fu Li Shin paused. Her silvery hair danced in the fragrant breeze and she didn't seem to breathe. Was someone there?