Chapter 13
The Emperor, Djinn TsaiThe Emperor, Djinn Tsai, had sat upon the elephant throne for more than eight hundred years - a considerable measure of life, unimaginable for any mortal man. Yet to one such as him, it was still merely a passing fancy. To sit upon the elephant throne was an opportunity for him to learn and grow with the experience of ruling a people and, consequently, to gather the particular form of energy he craved above all else, before possibly seeking other distractions for a life that could have no measure.
However, the lives of his subjects, once a source of amusement and distraction to him were fast becoming little more than an irritation. They lived such a short time span and spent most of it consumed by such a multitude of constraints and addictions that what
