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A teahouse, a storyteller of unknown origin, the stories of monsters he tells, and his stories.
"I don't want to," he said, "I don't want to be like the thousands of beauties in your harem who enter this huge palace city in their prime. Waiting for the king's favor in the nine-storied palace with white walls and red tiles, watching my youth drift away from my hands like sand, watching myself getting older day by day, and seeing in the mirror that my beauty is gone and my hair is white. Waiting all my life only gets a gorgeous posthumous title after death."