[ Easier, perhaps, than either of them had expected, and still accompanied with the measuring tilt of Lan Wangji's head. Mercy can't truly limit academic curiosity. ]
You speak. [ ] Spirits lack sentience.
[ In their majority and dubious splendour. There were fewer guidelines than Lan Wangji cared or the elders of cultivation troubled themselves to reveal during training, but this much was certain: the dead only held on to awareness amid possession.
This... green stirring of bone and flesh looks the part of a natural — composite. This was his form, whenever he was built, by whatever ungainly hand. This must be the body's first awareness, his first conscience.
Therefore. Not possessed. Not a spirit.
Only... deformed in colouring and stature. The giving of sickness, perhaps, or poor blood. ]
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[ Easier, perhaps, than either of them had expected, and still accompanied with the measuring tilt of Lan Wangji's head. Mercy can't truly limit academic curiosity. ]
You speak. [ ] Spirits lack sentience.
[ In their majority and dubious splendour. There were fewer guidelines than Lan Wangji cared or the elders of cultivation troubled themselves to reveal during training, but this much was certain: the dead only held on to awareness amid possession.
This... green stirring of bone and flesh looks the part of a natural — composite. This was his form, whenever he was built, by whatever ungainly hand. This must be the body's first awareness, his first conscience.
Therefore. Not possessed. Not a spirit.
Only... deformed in colouring and stature. The giving of sickness, perhaps, or poor blood. ]