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Xiao Xingchen | 晓星尘 ([personal profile] binghua) wrote in [community profile] eastbound2022-03-15 01:02 pm

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I have been thinking lately, perhaps too much, about forgiveness. Or, rather, resentment, especially with regards to these curses we've been gifted. I don't know what everyone else has to break, but mine involves jealousy and, thus, its own kind of resentment. I think most lingering cases such as these stem from unhappiness along a similar vein.

As a cultivator, it is my duty to cleanse such resentment from the dead so as not to affect the living in their wake. I am willing to help anyone else who may need it, though I fear I may not be as much help as others. I'm not sure I'm the best at forgiveness, either, even for myself...

[Xingchen's voice trails off, almost as if he forgets he's talking to anyone else, but he quickly recovers and clears his throat.]

I'm rambling. What I mean to say is I would like your cooperation if it's not too much to ask. As I said before my curse involves jealousy and words spoken in anger and dissatisfaction. I would like for as many of us to instead spread words of affirmation around the village. It might sound silly, and maybe it is, but I believe even something so small can make a difference. For example, last night I told one of the bartenders he had a pleasing voice. It doesn't have to be anything complicated, just kind.

Don't feel as if I'm forcing you, either. No one has to help if they don't want to.
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[personal profile] reparo 2022-03-20 08:54 am (UTC)(link)
Our very own two-person library.
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[personal profile] silverneedles 2022-03-20 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Perhaps this one we can take with us when we leave. I was devastated to leave some of my books behind in Taravast.
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[personal profile] reparo 2022-03-21 09:27 am (UTC)(link)
We absolutely will - I'm not going to let it go.
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[personal profile] silverneedles 2022-03-23 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
In my world, we have pouches that can hold more than what they appear. I am not a seamstress so I don't know the trick but it would enable us to carry books. And herbs.
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[personal profile] reparo 2022-03-23 07:16 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I made a bag like that - so I can carry the books for us.