Transve... and teleportation. He has heard one of the — processes named before. Five's practice, or that of a motion array. To listen to Wrath, the first procedure must be akin to the second, and so Lan Wangji learns the name, stores it for later study. Men of different means, of different worlds, cannot be underestimated — not in their power, not in their hubris.
This creature believes in its immortality. Do sects not toil endlessly to produce the scant, chosen few who have earned the privilege of life, stripped of death's decay? Why should the concept now fester in Lan Wangji's mind like sickness? Because some virtues are better aspired to than conquered.
"All men die." But it slips him like snake's venom and steely susurrus, like the breath of a tinkering politician, "Monsters life forever."
Not the hour, he knows, for idle talk. On his flesh, above the reduced layers of silks that bind him, the membranous suit pulses the bright white of alert, as his slippage continues. Slowly, the beam starts to bleed into red.
He stays himself, enough of the old prudence left within him that he knows he should begin the swim up.
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This creature believes in its immortality. Do sects not toil endlessly to produce the scant, chosen few who have earned the privilege of life, stripped of death's decay? Why should the concept now fester in Lan Wangji's mind like sickness? Because some virtues are better aspired to than conquered.
"All men die." But it slips him like snake's venom and steely susurrus, like the breath of a tinkering politician, "Monsters life forever."
Not the hour, he knows, for idle talk. On his flesh, above the reduced layers of silks that bind him, the membranous suit pulses the bright white of alert, as his slippage continues. Slowly, the beam starts to bleed into red.
He stays himself, enough of the old prudence left within him that he knows he should begin the swim up.