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ʟᴀɴ ᴡᴀɴɢᴊɪ | 蓝忘机 ([personal profile] downswing) wrote in [community profile] westwhere 2022-04-19 09:13 pm (UTC)

In all things, balance.

[ Rota philosophy, cheap learning. Cultivators who wish to know nothing of specifics rely on abstracts. He has come to understand that books are so often written for men who wish to ignore true knowledge. That he may rely on precepts only when he has not honed the blade of his own thoughts.

And they swirl now, even as he brings himself up, one leg, then the next, and seems to start the walk onwards — a soft wave behind him, calling Xie Lian as if he were the dog Wei Ying will never allow him to summon and keep.

Pets are interdicted in Cloud Recesses. But he walks the sundered mantle of a volcano, beaten and cracked like ancient ceramic. He can afford a... kept creature, trailing in his footsteps. ]


No gods of drought rule here. Parched dead do not linger. [ Whatever came to be here, is nature is — not of a haunting. ] Perhaps a matter widowed of spirits.

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