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Tirehbel in Megazomia
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"I'm not writing for other people to look at."

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Then she can keep using bits of charcoal if she prefers, even if it is a weird beast-person sort of habit to have. 

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She's not averse to trying ink one day but it doesn't seem urgent.

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It is not urgent. 

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The next evening, Jing Yi would like to try and get her alone for a private conversation again. 

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Uh, sure, what's up.

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"Some advice, as a favour I hope you will repay me one day. You aren't being paranoid enough." 

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"What do you mean?"

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"You clearly grew up with a pretty small group of people. Maybe just your family, maybe a few others. You're not prepared for how a large society will treat you. There are millions of people in the empire and some of them will mean you ill for no reason other than opportunism. You got lucky, Guo Rong is as Guo as they come and Du Ye is a guileless fool, but if you keep going around talking about how you have impossible powers to strangers you're going to get stabbed in the back by someone who thinks they can get your powers by eating your heart or something." 

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"...are there powers that work like that?"

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"It's literally ever worked out for someone, eating the heart of a powerful monster to gain its powers? But mostly it does nothing and mostly when it does do something the something it does is throwing your qi into deviation. I wouldn't recommend it, unless the only alternative was death." 

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"Okay. Was that just an example?"

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