audio | un: wei laozu, following Wrath's announcement b/c bendytime
With Prince Wrath having spoken as he has, let me follow up with what Lily Evans and I learned on a recent evening ( because life is busy and time is for HANDWAVING BENDINESS ). Lady Vannozza has been slowly carved hollow. We should secure her spirit's bonds to her body, and prevent other spirits from flowing in.
Lily and I learned of this from one such spirit forcibly filling Lady Vannozza. We've met the famed, or infamous, and long dead Lady Hatisse, and she is... exemplary of her school of magic. ( note: attaryl. note: the shit they've been up to. further note: this is and is not a compliment. ) She noted Lady Vannozza was prepared as a vessel for another.
She also offered trade. Lady Hatisse asks we bring out her entombed, preserved body before the moon swells full. In return, she says she'll assist in opening a beacon to send us home. As to what else she will or won't do, I wouldn't make claim. She's powerful. She's dead. Her body is her own.
I know my mind on this. I want to hear yours.
Lily and I learned of this from one such spirit forcibly filling Lady Vannozza. We've met the famed, or infamous, and long dead Lady Hatisse, and she is... exemplary of her school of magic. ( note: attaryl. note: the shit they've been up to. further note: this is and is not a compliment. ) She noted Lady Vannozza was prepared as a vessel for another.
She also offered trade. Lady Hatisse asks we bring out her entombed, preserved body before the moon swells full. In return, she says she'll assist in opening a beacon to send us home. As to what else she will or won't do, I wouldn't make claim. She's powerful. She's dead. Her body is her own.
I know my mind on this. I want to hear yours.

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( Duel at dawns. )
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( welcome to edging, wangji )
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What tempts you in her? A woman as poison.
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How long will you guard that death does not touch where she lingers? How long before the invitation becomes damning either way, to have ignored it, or to have accepted it, once it's been stated. To what seduction do you presume me fallen now? To what poison choking down gladly and ignorant of the death that comes in clenched, twisted guts and everything else?
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You think, because death kneels to you, she will.
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You are no king here. They took your crown.
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I did not fail as a king. I failed as a protector who trusted, on any level, that the righteous were actually righteous, and that justice would matter in the end. It did not. It still does not.
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It demeans you.
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