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A folk tale about Queen Tsa and "the cleverest of the three moons," Mishim, is used to explain why the people of Natan have blue skin.{{book ref|sa3|67}} In the story, Mishim first tries to convince the queen to swap places with her by enticing her with descriptions of the marvelous sights of the heavens. Tsa turns down all of Mishim's advances, however, by telling her that such sights are not for mortals. Finally, however, Mishim convinces Tsa to trade places with her by telling the queen that one of her towers has a flaw that is only visible from above. Mishim warns that this swap will be dangerous, as they must conceal it from the moon [[Nomon]], and Tsa promises to pretend to be Mishim and to look only on her towers.{{book ref|sa3|67}}
Mishim spends her night among mortals partying and is so caught up in the festivities that she does not remember that she has to return to the sky until the sun had already risen and Tsa, as the moon, had already set. As a result, she has to spend the next day on Roshar, during which she fears her siblings will discover what she has done and comes to understand the emotion of anxiety. Yet when [[Salas]] and then Nomon rise, neither call out to chastise her. At last, when Tsa rises,
As Mishim sets that night, however, she is confused, as she hears a song she has never heard before, which she describes as "a song of laughter [and] of beauty."{{book ref|sa3|67}} A few months later, when she is passing over Tsa's city, Mishim understands this song as she sees Tsa holding a baby boy with faintly blue skin and realizes that she was tricked. Tsa wanted to spend a night in the heavens so that she could have a child by Nomon, whom the people of Natan held in high regard.{{book ref|sa3|67}}
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