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Sifu Myrron is Wave's spiritual ancestor and best friend. "He seems so much younger than me," he rues. He yearns to enter the world of pure practice and contemplation that Myrron lives in. To which, Myrron replies, "The Way is lived. This is a challenge to me, it would not be to you. Live your challenge, Exalt, and advance!"
 
Sifu Myrron is Wave's spiritual ancestor and best friend. "He seems so much younger than me," he rues. He yearns to enter the world of pure practice and contemplation that Myrron lives in. To which, Myrron replies, "The Way is lived. This is a challenge to me, it would not be to you. Live your challenge, Exalt, and advance!"
 
==Master Crashing Wave's relationship to the Scarlet Empress==
 
 
"Brother Wave. Please, attend me."
 
 
It was very strange. In a small set of gardens located off of the Imperial Palace, a grotto with many waterfalls was located.
 
 
In this place, she wore only a tunic, slippers and a pair of trousers. Her hair was red, but had golden highlights. She had freckles. If he were a less well possessed man, he'd have been struck by the simplicity and ordinariness of her beauty. Here, she could have been any of his students at the Cloister of Wisdom.
 
 
"This is my command," she said. "Here, I am merely 'student'. You are the Master. You will correct my form and see to it that I maintain my edge with the 5 Dragons style. Here, I will obey you, only in regards to instruction."
 
 
With that, Crashing Wave bowed. "As you command, Supreme Mistress of Creation. If it is pleasing, during these 3 hours, on the appointed days, you will be 'student'. If you do not adhere to my standards and do not perform adequately, you will be dismissed from my instruction. No public mention will be made of this. Am I understood? You may address me as 'Sifu', instead of Master. I am but a student myself, and I will be as much a student as you." To his knowledge, no one had ever dared risk laying such conditions on the Scarlet Empress. But, damn it all, he had taught martial arts for a century, and he knew what worked and what did not. Further, she may be the Empress, but she's still a woman, and he was sure that she'd not respect some fawing sycophant. Not even the Empress was greater than the Way - no one person was.
 
 
"Now, student, it is my understanding that you come to me with an advanced understanding of several traditional Martial Arts. However, since I have just become your Sifu, I will not try to second guess your skills. We will start from the beginning. Empty your cup, and drink from the well which I am about to show you, as my Sifu showed me. Now, we will begin."
 
 
During the practice, there was hardly ever any talk of politics. Occasionally, the functionary... Kejak? Kejan? What was his name? Would occasionally come in, but she would always command him to wait outside the grotto. Sometimes, traces in her footwork and bladesmanship from creep into her style, but Crashing Wave would follow through with his classic rebuke for his Cloister of Wisdom students - "Empty your cup!" Along with a crack of his bamboo instruction stick. "Water feels, not thinks. Empty your head."
 
 
While Crashing Wave might have been tempted to presume more of their relationship, he made sure to treat it as simply what it was - private instruction in 5 Dragons Style. To presume more would be to create a massive breach of trust. Crashing Wave decided to merely be her Sifu - and to let the simple example of his life, which she certainly knew about in full detail - make whatever cases in regards to whatever debates or conversations they may otherwise have had. If nothing else, he was glad he could provide the Scarlet Empress some time to not concern herself with the business of ruling Creation, but to focus on her own spirit. While a master of the Water Dragon style, he always came back to the first moves of the 5 Dragon form he ever learned. The Way is lived, his old Sifu would tell him. So, that he did.
 
 
He is uncertain if this invitation to her personal councils of the mighty, in secret, was not perhaps another test.
 

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