Author Unknown
And it came to pass that the gentle and naive subject, Lalu of the CAS-Votaries Gild, requested the honour of the malevolent and omnipotent goddess tispt's presence at a chance encounter, high atop Mount Texas. And the goddess tispt did consult her wise counsel, goddess High-D (with visage terrible and mischievous), who did advise that such an encounter might compromise the ancient tee-ay code of secrecy of selfdom. The goddess tispt avowed the truth of the words her co-goddess had spake, but alas, she was not wholly swayed by the pronouncement of her wise, yet obstinate, counsel. Thus ensued a longsome deliberation twixt the two obdurate goddesses.
At long last, a resolution was realized, harsh and stern though it were, that no mortal would ever contemplate the countenance of the leaders of the empire of tee-ay in the temple in which they dwelt. Verily, the goddess tispt did decree to the gentle and naive Lalu, and to all of his guileless supporters, that no such encounter should ever take place, for such a meeting of mortal man and everlasting sovereign would surely result disastrous. "Go forth, and be merry in your ignorance of the ways of the leaders!" ordained the goddess. "You are but mere lackeys and shall never know the ways of the sovereign rulers!"
But the gentle Lalu proved not so naive, and his pursuit of the encounter perdured, that he might one day savour, if but for a moment, the sweet wisdom and phantasy and goodwill that floweth, as a deluge, from the summit of Mount Texas. And his imploring was like a psaltery upon the goddess's ears. And the resistance of the malevolent goddess did weaken at the insistence of Lalu. And anew did she seek the counsel of the goddess High-D, and again did the goddess High-D determine that mere mortals would ne'er able bear the ribaldry and sapience of the sovereign rulers. But the malevolent and omnipotent goddess tispt was not so easily convinced this tyme. And a debate ensued.
Yet the hour of Lalu's arrival drew nigh, and still the goddesses had not reached unfaltering agreement. Hour after hour did they wraxle with the idea, and yet they came to no resolution. Yea, even now it is rumoured that the deliberation persists, and the question of whether the two - mortal and goddess - ever did meet is left to the annals of history.
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