Fic Update Thread 54: Find a spot out on the floor!

[Mamorien]

Threads of Destiny (OEX) 383: Perdition 3.

The general’s flames threatened to sear her without ever once intending her harm. Because the general believed in bringing people together too. No matter what they wanted. No matter how dear the barriers were. No matter how they screamed as their chains were broken.

What would Ling Qi do if the White Sky recoiled from this day in horror and retreated to their borders? What would she do if conflict between the Celestial Empire and the Polar Nation came to blows?

(...)

That was the searing truth the general’s fires would not let her ignore.

This was power.

Spoiler

In the end, peace was only possible because the Celestial Empire and the Polar Nation alike were wary of one another's power. If one grew weak, or was perceived as weak, that would change.

Her method was fundamentally an ephemeral act of trickery and…

No.

(...)

She would not be like the general. She would not lose the ability to feel because the general was wrong. Power was not so simple as that. The world was not simply a game of domination. Power was required for action; it was not required for respect. If people spoke and were bound by the right chains, respect would remain, even if power wavered back and forth, as it always did, as it always must. No one and nothing lasted forever, and no power was excluded from that.

Below, countless tons of stone groaned. Another glittering world of illusion was sundered by a blade of realities.

She had made this, and so she had no right to refuse to witness it.

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