<div class="floatright">(http://bluehairmanga.com/gallery/image?view=image&amp;format=raw&amp;type=img&amp;id=64)</div><div align="center"><strong>Kitsune Mio</strong></div><br/>Kitsune Mio snapped her fan and fanned herself as she listened to the bride speak.  When it came to her turn, she gave a small bow in her direction.  "I regret to inform Ikeda-sama that I have no such stories of my own devising.  For you see, my home, the Kitsune Mori, is a place on the verge of the Spirit realms.  It's well known that if one were to wander off in the wrong direction, they may very well enter the spirit realm of the animal spirits, and be forced to contend with them.  So I have no flights of fancy to share about that.  I do, however, have a story that my grandmother told me.  I wish I could take credit for it's creation, but alas, it is, absolutely and completely true."<br/><br/>Kitsune Mio sat on her feet as she began to weave her tale.  She was an expert storyteller and knew exactly how to enrapture an audience.  "Many of you may know that my Clan are vegetarians.  Indeed, we eat no meat at all, not fish, much less the vaunted 'Mountain Tuna' of the Dragon Clan.   There is good reason for this."<br/><br/>There was once a man, when our clan was still young, who lived in the forest and took all he needed for life from it.  He hunted boar, pheasant, fawn, whatever he wished, the forest provided for him.  He even managed to kill a massive bear, one that could have killed him had he not been such a skilled hunter.  One day, however, he met his match in a fox of brilliant golden fur.  He was not an honorable man, and he wished to kill this fox to make himself a fine hat that would keep him warm in the winter.  But the fox tricked him, it lured the man back to one of his own traps, hoisting the man into the air."<br/><br/>The man knew he was going to starve and die there alone in the woods, but just before nightfall, when the wall to the spirit realm is most thin, the golden fox came back.  'Why do you hunt my brethren, my people of the land and air?'  The fox asked the man.   The man, having no experience with speaking to animals before stuttered a response, 'I only do so that I may eat!  I take the fattest of you, cook and eat them so that I may live to cook and hunt again.'  The fox seemed to understand this, and made him an offer 'If I cut you down, will you cease to hunt us and instead, become like the good people of the Fox Clan?' The man agreed very quickly, 'I will never eat another living creature as long as I live'"<br/><br/>True to his word, the fox cut the man down and introduced itself as Ho, an animal spirit.  The man thanked his new fox friend and returned back to his village.  The fox, as spirits sometimes do, followed the man, watching him from the forest to make sure the man kept his promise.  The fox grew fond of the man, leading him to meet a young maiden who would become his wife, and mother to his many and numerous children."<br/><br/>"Although while the fox never forgot the promise, the man once did, and on a feast day, when he was an old man, he was offered to try some sushi that had been caught and prepared by a traveling chef.  The man loved the dish and ate his fill in sushi, five, six rolls he had, so much that his belly protruded from his hakama.   The man went home to sleep off his gluttony, and went to the warm embrace of his wife, kissed his many children, and by now, grandchildren on the forehead and went to sleep."<br/><br/>"A disquieting dream woke the man up and he went outside into the forest to get some fresh air.  There, at the edgeof his property, he saw Ho, the fox spirit, and dozens and dozens other animals all in a circle around him and his home.  The animals all had glassy eyed stares, and they drooled, hungry for food and unable to think of anything else.  The man noticed the bear especially, massive in size, it could only be the spirit of the one the man slew in his youth.<br/><br/>The man said to Ho, 'Ho, my friend!  I am sorry I forgot my promise, but I am an old man now, with a home, and family, am I not allowed a single vice?"  The fox turned his back on the man saying, "I am not angry, on the contrary, I am glad you are well fed, for we are hungry, and there are many of us."  Kitsune Mio snapped closed her fan, and gave a small smile to the crowd, "The man and his family were never heard from again."<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">Gonna spend a void point on this roll:  Perform: Storytelling+Courtier 6k5=13, 16, 9, 7, 6, 3=51 </div></div>