Editing Sasori outlooks (Polesia) (section)

==Shineinawashi Clan==

Need to defeat a Shineinawashi? Make him fight.

In their schools and libraries, the Shineinawashi are as dangerous as the Tora. They read and learn, but they never know. The mask the Shineinawashi wear is enlightenment. It hides the face of ignorance. A Shineinawashi spends his lifetime studying Tao and the elements, but put him in a battle and where is he? Frightened like a child, hoping to go home. Put him in a court and where is he? Stammering and pouting, hoping the party will end soon. The Shineinawashi have no heart, they have no spine, they have no blood. There is no life in them. If a Shineinawashi gives you trouble, put a pretty girl in his way and watch him run out of words to say.

One day, Scorpion came to Phoenix in his high mountains and said "I have a gift for you." Phoenix backed away. "Oh, no. I know of you, brother Scorpion. I know all about you. I don't want your gift." "Oh really," said Scorpion. "I will leave it here," he said as he put it on the ground. "And if you don't want it, someone else certainly will." Then, Scorpion walked away. Phoenix looked at the gift and thought, "If I take the gift, and it is a trap, then I have been tricked. But if I leave it and it is not a trap, then I have been tricked. What shall I do?" All day long, Phoenix sat and looked at the gift, pondering it. "What does he have in mind? He tricked Crab with anger and the Tiger with pride. He tricked the Ki-Rin with her ignorance and the Crane with flattery. How does this mean to trick me?" Soon, Mother Sun had crossed the sky and Father Moon had made his nightly progress, but Phoenix had not moved a single footstep. He was rooted to the spot, pondering Scorpion's gift. When he looked up the next morning, he saw Scorpion watching him and laughing. And Phoenix had nothing more to say. [16]