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'Why yes,' Yokome said. 'Not many people know about our salon because it just opened. Be sure to stop by to see what our salon has to offer for our geisha and maiko. You can also send maids to pick up hair ornaments and such.'

"Ne Onee-sama...since the conversation seems to be slowing, might we possibly start a game of Big Liar?" Mizu asked her Onee-sama in a low whisper. She did not wish to appear rude, and wondered if playing this game might liven the patron as well as the geisha and maiko.

Yokome knew she was no good at making up stories and she was horrible at being the person who told the stories. So she sat back and waited for someone else to step up.

"I would be happy to go if no one else will, Serena-san." Nitta smiled.

"Ok, my first story takes place when I was still young, only 7 or 8 at the time. My mother was a geisha, still learning dancing at the school. One day she received a new dance fan from the iemoto, dance master. On her way home, she placed it in her sleeve, only to find out later that it had fallen out. She sent her maids to look through the okiya and all through the streets and teahouses she had visited that night, but no one found it. Late one night, over two weeks later, there was a knock at the door of the okiya. But by time the maiko there opened it, no one was there but the fan. It was wrapped in blue silk with a dog's paw print in ink upon it. Mother asked around, but no one had heard anything about it and she never knew who or what had brought it back." Nitta looked around at those gathered.

"My second story happened to myself when I was a maiko. I was still not yet used to my hairstyle and had to have it redone nearly every day. After I had it done one morning, I came home for a quick nap before that evenings' appointments. But I didn't know that one of the maids had left the window open in my room. As I woke up, I heard a loud cheeping. I sat up quickly and two birds flew up. My onee-san came in and started laughing, showing me where the two birds had nested in my hair!" Nitta laughed.

"Okay my friends, which is my lie?"

"I hate to be contrary to my Onee-sama," Mizu began shyly, "but I believe the second to be a lie? Oftentimes it is the more absurd story that is truthful though I can see why a bird might nest in a maiko's hair." One of her hands came up to delicately touch her own hair with a slightly-colored blush coupled with one of her shy, easy laughs.

Nitta laughed softly, listening to Serena and her younger sister.

"On the bright side, one way or another, one of you will have to be correct, yes?" Nitta took a sip of her tea.

Mizu giggled softly. "I never thought of it that way!" she confessed with a bright smile, "but that does show some advantages to being contrary to my Onee-sama," she jested lightly.

Stands up and slips out the room unnoticed back to the backroom, changes, leaving the clothing folded nicely on a table with some coinage to pay changes into clean traveling clothes and slips out thru the backwall, one of the advantages of being a Psi-Ghost physical barriers mean nothing, and heads out looking for work as one of the most fear information gather/spies/influrtators on Rifts Earth..... The Psi-Ghost.