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

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[X] Visiting the District's shrine of the Tree with Zhengui, Gan Guangli has an interest as well.

I feel sorry for missing this Hanyi scene. Still there will be more of her next turn. Only one option here has the potential for [Zhengui x Xiangmen].
 
One day, Zhengui will be(or look like, from a distance, especially to mortals) a big tree.

Therefore, he must learn from Biggest Tree.

This is the way.

[X] Visiting the District's shrine of the Tree with Zhengui, Gan Guangli has an interest as well.
 
[ ] Visiting the District's shrine of the Tree with Zhengui, Gan Guangli has an interest as well

A part of me feels like we should spend more time with little bro turtle now over Cai...Or maybe that's I want to hang with GG and Zhengui instead. Hrrrm.
 
[X] Dress shopping for Hanyi, Renxiang has been cajoled into accompanying you

Doing this basically right in the aftermath of Renxiang's offscreen dramatic wardrobe change moment is great.

Hanyi: "What sort of dress should I get?"

Renxiang: (solemnly, as if imparting a deep personal truth) "Pants."
 
yrsillar said:
Fools and amateurs lie. The master forges the ore of truth into the alloy of narrative. Stories are the ties that bind men together. Stories are power.
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"It's all so tenuous," Ling Qi said, looking up at the dark sky and the near full moon gleaming overhead. "Families and business and friends, united by the merest thread. It can all fall apart in an instant. It did all fall apart in an instant, not too long ago, didn't it?"
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"Is not the greatest artist but the most consummate of liars?"

"No, they are the poorest ones, if you have no truth to convey, your art is empty." Ling Qi said, and turned to face the moon. "If it speaks only to your own self, it is even more worthless still."

Silver light burnt her eyes, made tears trickle down her cheeks.

Family is only a knot of strong bonds, it is the small connections between people which build community. There was no line between love and obligation, not if both were true.
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Again we see this sort of twisting of the ideas the Weilu seemed to have left behind by the Hui. It isn't hard to make the leap from storyteller/artist to liar in a lot of cases. The Hui start point doesn't seem to have been bad or wrong. It was to take something and make it larger than life, something that anyone could understand and rally behind. But the Palace of One had left itself seemingly hollow and empty, a whirlwind for everything to be picked up and gathered too but with nothing at it's core. So, the Hui emulated their Matron, making hollow pointless dreams and art and stories. Then they started to fill that emptiness with themselves and it all spiraled out of control from there until they were just spiders making webs because that's all they knew how to do. Hollow spiders spinning hollow webs with hollow threads hoping to catch something real.

But they weren't far off.

You can make these connections, you can make these stories with people and it makes you all stronger and better. We are stronger together but only as strong as our bonds are, otherwise it just becomes another thing to hurt us with. Like the Dreaming Moon said we are so close to another insight. I have a feeling this upcoming insight is going to hurt and it might bring us to our breaking point but I think it's going to be worth it.
 
[X] Visiting the District's shrine of the Tree with Zhengui, Gan Guangli has an interest as well.

Eh, I'm curious to see Zhengui poke at Big Tree stuff. It'll be nice if we can get some groundwork on Gan Guangli's spiritual side ahead of potential interactions in the south, too.

[ ] Dress shopping for Hanyi, Renxiang has been cajoled into accompanying you

Don't get me wrong, there's interesting stuff here. Potential grappling with Hanyi's social standing as a spirit, showcasing little sister stuff for Renxiang. But diving into the guts of spirit discrimination's probably a bit blunted by Renxiang's presence, and we've got a good while before Renxiang's little sister is more than a blob, so there's more time to work on that staff in comparison.

No losing option here, just more interested in the one.
 
[X] Visiting the District's shrine of the Tree with Zhengui, Gan Guangli has an interest as well.

zhengui meeting the biggest tree and a chance to tease GG about su ling is tough to pass up, sadly
 
[X] Visiting the District's shrine of the Tree with Zhengui, Gan Guangli has an interest as well.
 
[x] Visiting the District's shrine of the Tree with Zhengui, Gan Guangli has an interest as well.

We have already had a scene dress shopping with Hanyi. I have no doubts that Yrs would make it just as interesting, but the tree shrine is something we haven't seen before and is unlikely to get again. At least anytime soon.
 
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