He stood in the hot chinese sun in his hot chinese robes. He had no choice, he had to wear them, after all , everyone else around him was wearing the chinese robes. They were the order of the day, especially in ancient china. Yeah, thats where he was, at least relative to the year 2011, but to him, ancient china was where he was born, lived and where he would die. It was the esteemed middle kingdom to him by the way, thank you very much.

So uh he was the "premier", or in terms perhaps remotely understandable to folk like you, the esteemed prime minister. Answering only to the Emperor, he essentially tended to the affairs of the kingdom, increasing revenue, making the country prosper, and getting rid of financial liabilities. With the exception of the biggest one that is, the emperor himself of course.

Who else could it be? But of course there was nothing he could do about heavenly mandate. Heaven would do what heaven wanted to do, and it was his job, to stop it from getting too far out of hand, and naturally he did.

And anyway everyone had to wear the robes, premier or not since the Emperor himself had decreed that royal ministers should wear them. Everyone hated the heat of course, but the Emperor could not understand. After all he had been surrounded by a contingent of royal fanners all day.

Still, there was a reason he was there, there had apparently been news of a rogue figure turning up at the event. And within a second he spotted him. He recognized him from the purple hair growing from behind his ears, yes his ears. His horrible pointy ears.

Generally when you spotted someone with pointy ears in Ancient China, he either had a horrible deformity, or was some spirit of some sort. Judging by the purple hair, it was a spirit.

He considered his options, he couldn't let it stay there, who knows what it would do. Judging by the fact that it was not breathing fire or sending Imperial guards flying, it was probably a benevolent one, but what could he do. He had to reason with....it.

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Uh, thats all for now.

Never mind.

I'll finish this some other day.

I will.

I mean it this time!

Okay.

Part Two.

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He composed himself and walked up to the figure, and it whipped around to face him immediately.

"I've been expecting you."

"Wha..?"

It was not customary for spirits to speak to him like that, it was vaguely unsettling that the creature was not balked by his presence, but what could he d-

"Don't call me a creature, I resent that."

"Um."

"Meet me

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