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it was better to be kind and be hurt than to live your life as a monster. That it was better than living a life of cruelty and wrath, taking and taking without caring for others.
You never hear about the reasonable people. It’s always the caricatures that get the screen time. And it was absolutely hilarious to see her eyes bug out when she ate her first bit of rice. I remember the food at my Sect being pretty meh, so my food must taste like heaven. Fool. This is only the first form of my cuisine! Teriyaki burgers will flow! Poutine will flourish! I will master the Dao of Cooking, and all will fear my might!
So. A Profound-level Spirit Beast that was a chicken. A medical rat. Would there next be pigs that could shake the earth? There was a happy squeal from outside and the thunder of trotters, as the heavens decided to mock her. Her eyebrow twitched. She took another breath, as her father had told her. A deep breath in and out, to center one’s self. “You get used to it,” Senior Sister said, her eyes lidded with amusement.
“Remember that everything is connected,” I finally settled on. “The water we drink, the air we breathe, the food we eat. Everything has some part of it that leads into each other. Disrupting one thing can disrupt many others. Fixing one thing can fix many others.”
