<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>Palace, evening<br/><strong>Tagging :</strong>Shin Min-hee, Ta Mei Huai<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Lamellar-armored wardens lined the walls of the palace in number, after the attempt on Lord Chiang's life. An armed escort opened the gate for Ta Mei Huai and Shin Min-hee to allow them into the gardens surrounding the main house. Though they were anticipated, naked blades gleamed under the fiery lantern-light of a palace holding its breath. The breath of the jealous Fifth Concubine was enough sound to give her away at the second story window, watching Ta Mei Huai's resourcefulness play out. She retreated from sight.<br/><br/>Judge Fu Li Shin stepped fiercely around the dragon shrine to greet them personally. The momentum still billowed through her half-cape as she gave a perfunctory bow with a clear beginning and end. She was, for the time being, in charge. "Master," she called Min-hee. "Come, there is no time for formalities. Our lord has been poisoned- by this, I suspect." In thrust fingers she held the ampule of poison Heini had lifted from the assassin's body, still stained with the soot of Jeju Forest's charcoal kilns. "The room is ready. Anything more you need to treat him, it will be yours."<br/><br/>Smoky haze clouded the atmosphere of the lord's quarters, sweet with superstitious herbal cures. A chant,<em>Jiu mo gwai gwaai faai di zau, </em>died down as Li Shin entered. Lord Chiang lay in a stupor on his bed, not unconscious, but unaware. Servants and concubines peeled from his well-honed body, laid low by vile poison. The Second Concubine's fingers left his hand last.<br/><br/>"You must stay alert." Li Shin was watching the servants go, scrutinizing each of them. "It was a traitor who did this. Another may linger in the boughs to finish the job- the Black Crane." Her breath traveled down Min-hee's neck as she examined for the old sewing pin in the collar- an Emei trick. Ta Mei Huai she left unmolested, not because she was so trusted, but because all knew her timid heart.<br/><br/>The thief was not with them. To exert control over a situation slipping from her control, Judge Fu Li Shin gave the order. "Find the girl who recovered the poison. Bring her to me. I will thank her... personally."