<div class="floatleft">(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/76/c9/4f/76c94f176269a526fd43dde480c243ba.jpg)</div><strong>Name :</strong>Wǔ Shé<br/><strong>Element :</strong>Metal<br/><strong>Location &amp; Time :</strong>Entering the village as the boats begin their journey<br/><strong>Tagging :</strong>Open<br/><br/>Only the slight sway of hips and the tiny mounds in the simple tunic she wore, things no amount of training alone could hide, told an onlooker that the simply-dressed newcomer was in fact a young woman rather than a young man. Save for her rich hair, uncut and tied back with a leather cord, she might have been a  monk-apprentice on an errand for his Master, or the younger child of a family of respected beggars. Or, perhaps, an apprentice Apothecary, come to trade herbs and oils in town?<br/><br/>Naturally, Wǔ Shé was none of these; neither beggar nor monk, on no specific errand- and<em>certainly</em>not male.<br/><br/>She hadn't actually intended to reach Pai Shun during a Festival time, but clearly Divine Will had other plans for her.  At the Temple, later, she might ask what those plans were, so she might make plans of her own to meet them- but she had no expectation of receiving any answer. Nothing useful, at any rate.<br/><br/>For now, she simply moved through the crowds, bowing politely, smiling at all she met, but keeping a hand firmly on the satchel over her shoulder. Once, as a girl, she might have thought the Divines would smite anyone who dared to resort to thievery on a Festival day, but that illusion, like so many others, had perished in her some time ago. Now she dealt in realities, and the immediate reality, for her, is that she wished for a bowl of spicy noodles, a mug of beer, and a place to bathe and rest. It had been a long and exceptionally uneventful (not to say boring) walk from her last stopping point; this seemed as good a place as any to spend some of the coin she had earned from her last bounty, and a better time than most.<br/><br/>Perhaps there might be dancing, or even fireworks, to round off the evening?  Those would be good things, indeed.