How can I describe the depths of despair?
How can I show you a life devoid of hope, as everything around you crumbles to pieces, each and every life ground to dust, as the world stops from the sheer pain of it all?
How can I explain the bottom of the abyss to those who have never felt their souls cry out from the sheer weight of it all?
The first note ruined me.
The second taught me what it means to feel despair.
The third was empty.
The fourth was a rebirt...
2025-02-05 21:24:06 +0000 UTC
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We walk down the road to the town, and the closer we get, the more I can feel the tense energy in the air. Farmers avoid our gaze, and the carts making their way to the city rush past us as fast as their horses can pull them.
Another farmer turns around in his field as he catches sight of us, walking in the opposite direction.
Lai Ming doesn’t seem to notice the strange occurrence, but a glance at Xia Jing shows that she’d noticed the scared farmer as well.
A...
2025-01-29 23:14:32 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Huzzah! First Chapter of Book 3.
I breathe deep, the qi in the air flowing through me. My meridians pulse with the shaping of the qi into my breath.
I hum softly as I exhale. The forest floor blooms into flowers, the life of spring arriving with exuberance. Then they fade softly, the flowers wilting, as a rot consumes them.
The flowers fall into dust with my inhale. The hum of my exhale brings new life into the surroundings as plants grow from the dead, only to fa...
2025-01-23 01:26:58 +0000 UTC
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Lai Ming shoves me, and the road shatters as a blade of qi carves into it. Rubble, gravel and dirt fly into the air, hiding the skies and the very world around me. I roll across the ground until I’m just looking up at the now dirt covered sky.
A hand reaches out of the darkness and pulls me to my feet.
Xia Jing grasps my hand tightly, her eyes meeting mine for a brief moment. Lai Ming holds her other hand tight. I look up to the sky one last time, before the earth rises up to co...
2025-01-08 07:56:49 +0000 UTC
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