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January 10 - January 26, 2024
Haak’gong’s heartbeat was the clink of coin, its lifeblood the flow of trade, its bones the wooden stalls of marketplaces.
“There are old gods and new gods, kind gods and fickle gods—and most powerful of them all are the Four Demon Gods.”
Grief is for the survivors, and I think that, rather than living my life in pain, I would live it in laughter and love. To the fullest.
No matter how luxurious a life the caged bird leads, it remains at the mercy of its master.
Humans are greedy things. We set ourselves promises we cannot keep, boundaries we break. That is what the classics advise against: not how we practition but why.”
“And what would you give in exchange for this power?” The answer came to her from the morning her world had ended, from watching her mother’s life bleed out before her eyes. “Everything,” Lan whispered. “And that,” Dé’zǐ said, “is the first desire that puts one in the danger of falling Wayward.”
Power was a double-edged sword…but to not have it—that was to have no weapon to fight with at all.
