Chen (kitty):@Princess Kyoo oh that's perfect! @Jessic, no no no, not kidnapped. I'm freeing the foxes! =D 
Chen (kitty):it's gonna be great, there will be so many fox wishes and so much to do! also I promised Cyanis I'd do it don't tell Keron till later!
Chen (kitty):the monks and gods think it's not the best though and there's like a thousand of them all waiting on shore
Chen (kitty):oh and one just backflipped onto the ship and he's giving Petal a maid challenge!
Chen (kitty):omg, this is so good, let me take a picture
Chen (kitty):[maidchallenge.jpg]

Okay, look this was all very distracting, but Chen also needed to talk to her sun and rouse it a little. She figured that was sort of a personal thing. Like how her ancestors got to know the wind or the way it had all happened when she was dueling Hyra. Like, she could just start talking out loud to her circlet gemstone and that would kinda do something, but she understood in the way she understood sword dueling and maid contests that you had to live it, not just say it. If you wanted to rouse a Big Spirit you had to put your whole self into it. That meant different things for different people. Like maybe for Qiu it was all about the big dramatics, like why she'd done the organ on a pyramid and the helicopter chase when she was on top of her game. And for Jessic it was the training and the joy of flight, that feeling of a body whose power was not only innate but intensely built up through skill and practice so hard that you could feel it just by being near her. 

So for Chen, that was flow. It wasn't always the same flow, but it was some kind of flow. The dance, the duel, the act, it was always something. And actually, talking to it wasn't a bad start if she needed to find that here. "Hey" she said, phone still in one hand, the other tapping her circlet. "So like, you're in there sleeping huh? One of the suns in the sky. You got me these ears and this tail cuz of how right it felt to be this when Hyra and I were living out our dreams there. That was like super cool." 

Chen looks up at the sky, vast and distant, full of faint twinkling stars set on purple velvet, washing along in their own rivers of light. "This world, it's too beautiful for all these folks to be cooped up and running along just one route. I mean, you know not just running, but flipping and squirming and dashing and getting tied up, but like it can't all be one big precept of The Way like that. It can be a way, just like everyone can have a wish but there isn't just one wish. I want them all to get to feel that. Like what happened with me, kind of like the foxes do but softer, more personal, more lasting. Not that sort of helpless coercion (e-even if some people want that) but more like getting to see what's in their own heart and make it real. That's what I want from a sun, is for each of them to get to be a little bit more of what they want than they could on their own. To have the body they want, the clothes they want, to show people the heart and soul and beautiful little light shining from inside of them just like all those stars up there. So...think you could do something like that?"

And you know, come to think of it, Chen hadn't painted anything in a while. And of course she shouldn't really be painting right now. She was going to get kidnapped by foxes any second despite what she'd told Jessic. Or beset by monks now that Petal was occupied. Maybe both, which sounded exciting! But sometimes the time was now and you just had to do something. She was in the eye of the hurricane after all, best not waste it. So, she ducked into a cabin and got out her art supplies (because this time she'd brought stuff since they had a whole ship!) and she pulled out a little canvas that would be easy to move around, just like the size of a big book. And she started mixing a little color. Some purple mixed with just a bit of white to lighten it up and get that purple velvet sky, lighter at the edges where the one shy sun loved to hang out and watch the world peeking over a counter. It didn't matter if she finished right now, or what happened next, it just mattered that she started. Everything else would flow from there.