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"I would appreciate it if you would tell me events from your perspective." 

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"And then you'll let me go?" 

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"Yes." 

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"Wellllll, I can't promise how useful you'll find it, but okay." 

He gives a description of events that's mostly accurate in terms of what he did and saw, and completely bullshit in terms of his internal experiences. 

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"Thank you," he says, and mounts his sword and flies back to Mo Village. 

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"- well?" she asks when he's back.

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"He was the demonic cultivator. He claims it was an isolated use in response to a clear emergency. He did not seem to be a danger to anyone." 

 

"He--reminded me of. Someone."

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"He's the same person who was messing with the flags and starting altercations with random family members, is that also reminiscent?"

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"...Yes."

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"Interesting person." Sigh. "Anything else need checking, do you suppose?"

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"The dead will need burying. After that, I'm going to Dafan Mountain; there have been reports of people in a local village losing their souls. Do you wish to come?"

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"Only if it doesn't look like I'm going to lose my soul within six hours of accompanying you."

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"Of course." 

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They clean up at Mo Village, including dealing with the lightly neglected walking corpses and burying the six dead. 

They head for Dafan Mountain. 

"Hopefully nobody loses their soul in any version of the next six hours." 

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"Maybe in a few more years all the random villagers will know that if a weird-looking lady with short hair shows up they should tell her all their recent bad news, if people are losing their souls quietly I'm no good."

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"We can hope." 

The deity-binding nets are--annoying. Crude. Clearly the efforts of someone who cares more about winning than about succeeding; the number of them that have caught fellow cultivators is: too many. 

They are doing more harm than good. Lan Wangji destroys them. 

Encountering Jiang Wanyin is--unpleasant. It is never pleasant, but it is not, objectively, a catastrophe; Isabella's precognition is for avoiding people getting hurt, not for avoiding fratricidal assholes. 

Besides, watching Jiang Wanyin walk away first is--satisfying, a bit. 

Mo Xuanyu is there. He was talking to Jin Rulan for some reason? Hm. He's lucky Jiang Wanyin doesn't know what he did at Mo Village. 

He walks away, in no mood to be reminded of Wei Ying right now. 

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Shortly later: [Senior Suan, we've found out what's eating people's souls, it's the local goddess. This is a precognition, right? You can let it go a while longer so we can figure out how to beat it since this isn't real but, none of us have had our souls eaten but a handful of other cultivators have. Tell the real versions of us to make sure nobody prays to it.]

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[You know it creeps me out when people in precognitions tell me it's a precognition!] she says. [Tell me what you're trying so if I don't hear back I know it's a bad idea -]

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[Sorry, Senior Suan. Mo Xuanyu is the one who figured it out, he tried lighting it on fire but that didn't work. Swords also appear to not be working very well. Can you tell Hanguang-Jun to come over?]

("You're weirdly calm about the rampaging soul-eating goddess!" 
"It's okay, Young Master Mo, this isn't real." 
"What?" 
"We're in one of Senior Suan's precognitions."
"That's creepy as fuck.")

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Sure let's see what happens if Wangji goes over.

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[This is remarkably difficult to kill,] he reports, the faintest fleck of irritation in his "voice." [Arrows penetrate the stone of her flesh, but seem to do no lasting damage.]

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If they take too long to figure something out she can start over from the beginning with them having more information to hand.

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There is radio silence for a long few minutes, and then, with more open emotion than she's ever heard from him: 

[Wei Ying--Wei Wuxian is alive.]

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