[Day 6, MM] A Lion breakfast (open)

[Matsu Inori]

"Oh, in that case...good luck to her" Inori said.

We could go into an entire screed about competitive Gempukku...which I will not.

"It seems that your assignment is both an honoured and needed one, though. I do wonder what they intend to use their newly-minted Sapphire ambassadors for, if in fact they make any"

[Kaiu Kunio]

"If I had to make a guess, either to show off the best art there is, or to help promote all forms of art in as many parts of the empire as possible. I for one, welcome the chance to travel freely and help communities with repairing important infrastructure whenever possible."

[Matsu Inori]

"A very practical application of art that would be" Inori replied "Although of course I see nothing wrong with being practical first and foremost"

She took another spoon of barley gruel.

"We could start discussing the very nature of art now, but I'm neither a Phoenix nor a Dragon. Just someone content to paint things - I had the idea for this after my first journey into Crane lands and the delicacies offered up to the travellers from the other clans."