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Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)

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[X] Spend time outside, the land around the Sect was beautiful, and some of it was even mostly tamed. You can easily keep her safe, and it will be good for her to run around more.
 
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As she rose on a spiral of heated air from a plume of fiery gas, she hit upon her theme. As she soared back down, she began to play. It was a slow song, and a sad song, but most of all it was a peaceful song. With her music, she wove a spiritual tapestry, and in her mind's eye, she could see it. A vision of little hills rising from a sea of mist, and a peaceful river valley. A song of stars and sun passing over a landscape largely unchanged for a thousand years. Of rough edges worn smooth by wind, and little hills growing with centuries of sediment, one speck of dust and dirt at a time.

It was a song of mountains and earth, a song of how things should be, and as she suppressed her own qi, leaving only the ripples created by her song, she felt the beast react. It let out a keening double throated wail, full of anguish and grief. The earth shook as the hill itself did, thrashing limbs drumming against the earth as it shook its heads crazily, like an ox bothered by flies. Yet, all the same, while she continued playing, building a new verse even as she finished the first, she felt the warm and cool qi of mountain and earth increasing just a little, and the toxic aura of corruption weaken
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I really liked this section of the chapter. It's always neat to see Ling Qi use her talent in music for more than simple combat but to also try and communicate and appease a spirit that is lashing out against everything around it. Ling Qi's stealth ability also seems to have helped here because she can 'disappear' and leave only the song on the wind, soothing and calming the pain and hurt.

While it isn't explicitly mentioned, I like to think that Ling Qi's eclectic early cultivation (cultivating all eight imperial elements, and four of the five traditional elements) helped her compose a song that would express and promote types of qi that she personally doesn't cultivate any more. Even if the elements she cultivated was a muddled mess in the early days of red and yellow, it did provide her with a foundation in all of the elements, which I would like to imagine can only help Ling Qi draft songs about being slow, peaceful, and unchanging, even when motion and improvement is a core part of her identity at this point.
 
[X] Spend time outside, the land around the Sect was beautiful, and some of it was even mostly tamed. You can easily keep her safe, and it will be good for her to run around more.
 
[X] Spend time indoors and in the garden, reading with her. Biyu would be old enough to start learning her letters soon, so why not encourage her?
 
[X] Spend time outside, the land around the Sect was beautiful, and some of it was even mostly tamed. You can easily keep her safe, and it will be good for her to run around more.

We're not her mom, we're her cool, older sister who she is starting to adore. There will be plenty of time later to sharpen her on the studying grindstone, but you can only be a child once. Better to create some long lasting memories than learning her letters a week or two sooner.
 
[X] Spend time indoors and in the garden, reading with her. Biyu would be old enough to start learning her letters soon, so why not encourage her?

As always, I will advocate the boring low-risk option. We've had quite enough excitement due to the choices of... certain elements, and I shall need insist on a path of rather more temperance for the foreseeable(and indeed hopefully indefinite) future.
 
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[X] Spend time indoors and in the garden, reading with her. Biyu would be old enough to start learning her letters soon, so why not encourage her?
 
[X] Spend time outside, the land around the Sect was beautiful, and some of it was even mostly tamed. You can easily keep her safe, and it will be good for her to run around more.

If possible let's find a magical Mikky D's in the forest and feed her glorious magical hamburgers...
 
[X] Spend time outside, the land around the Sect was beautiful, and some of it was even mostly tamed. You can easily keep her safe, and it will be good for her to run around more.
 
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[X] Spend time indoors and in the garden, reading with her. Biyu would be old enough to start learning her letters soon, so why not encourage her?
 
Honestly, I'm not worried about exposing Biyu to blood and guts.

It's probably safe to assume that most spirit beast have decent senses. I can't imagine most things on this mountain would willingly approach LQ when she isn't trying to be sneaky.
 
Asael said:
Honestly, I'm not worried about exposing Biyu to blood and guts.

It's probably safe to assume that most spirit beast have decent senses. I can't imagine most things on this mountain would willingly approach LQ when she isn't trying to be sneaky.
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There's also a lot to be said of avoiding a mother bear with her cubs.

There's nothing for any spirit that could get away from Ling Qi to get from Biyu, and I'm sure it's obvious that anything that smells as much like a Yuki-Onna as we do would go the ends of the fucking earth to avenge her.
 
[X] Spend time outside, the land around the Sect was beautiful, and some of it was even mostly tamed. You can easily keep her safe, and it will be good for her to run around more.

We can keep a few defense arts active if we feel paranoid, but it likely is not necessary.
 
I don't see much likelihood of Biyu seeing blood even if she sees combat. The results from Ling Qi fighting something would be less 'gore explosion' and more 'suddenly an ice sculpture'.

Assuming that there isn't an all-obscuring mist meaning Biyu can't see anything anyway.

There's prob corpses around from natural predation ofc, but LQs senses should be far in excess of what would be needed to steer the two away from such things before they ever become visible.

Tbh I doubt we'll even be going that far into the wilderness for it to be an issue, more likely is just a stroll barely off the roads with a few grade one birds and squirrels around, and a few whispers to Biyu from the wind and plants.
 
FallenPears said:
I don't see much likelihood of Biyu seeing blood even if she sees combat. The results from Ling Qi fighting something would be less 'gore explosion' and more 'suddenly an ice sculpture'.

Assuming that there isn't an all-obscuring mist meaning Biyu can't see anything anyway.

There's prob corpses around from natural predation ofc, but LQs senses should be far in excess of what would be needed to steer the two away from such things before they ever become visible.

Tbh I doubt we'll even be going that far into the wilderness for it to be an issue, more likely is just a stroll barely off the roads with a few grade one birds and squirrels around, and a few whispers to Biyu from the wind and plants.
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Spring Breeze Canto means most issues will be more like "Zhengui, Hanyi, handle that" while we take Biyu in the opposite direction.
 
[X] Spend time outside, the land around the Sect was beautiful, and some of it was even mostly tamed. You can easily keep her safe, and it will be good for her to run around more.

Let's go thunder-jumping with the kid. It'll be great.
 
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