Ling Qi squeezed her eyes shut for a moment, and after a few seconds of careful consideration opened her mind to the dreams in the screaming wind.
My lord duke, the Li family will serve you faithfully always.The honor of being granted the three central passesis more honor than this humble one could possibly deserve.
Miserable bloated parasites crouching in their web. It is we who should rule the Emerald Seas. If only the other clans could see past their own miserable selfishness, we would be free of their yoke.
Ling QI shuddered, feeling resentment and murderous intent slither across her mind like dripping tar.
Not only have the barbarians been driven off with few casualties my lords, but the Li clan's physicians have further refined our arts, and we freely tribute our newest methods. Even flesh and bone may be a canvas for the incomparable artisans of Hui now. Together our glory will be everlasting.
Miserable jackals, growing fat off the labors of our hands and our minds. When was it last that any Hui had walked the battlefield? Faced the barbarian? No, if they had ever deserved it, they are unworthy of Xiangmen's throne my bretheren. Contact with the Patriarch Wu has been established, and we are certain that we have evaded the webs. Of the southern lords, only the Chu's disposition is unknown. I am wary to contact a man who so clearly dotes upon his Hui spouse.
Her eyes opened a crack, and she saw out of the corner of her eye, the black silhouette of a mountain lay in the distance, rising from a sea of yellow white debris. A great tunnel yawned through it's center, and for all that it was only stone, she felt like she stared into an open bleeding wound.
She let out a breath, contemplating those surface whispers and their implications. While it didn't much improve her opinions, it shifted the pieces in her head a little. The Hui's intransigence gained a patina of sensibility, from the coldest and most mechanical viewpoint.
Well assuming it was more than the whispers of madmen and radicals, imprinted long after their deaths.
Liminal Exploration Target Gained:
Bleeding Mountain.
