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CheongMyeong: His chaotic plum blossom intent - absorbed
Jian Wu: His nameless absence - absorbed (which creates an interesting paradox)
Dugu Jian: His primordial spirit sword-becoming - absorbed (a spirit absorbing a spirit-sword)
The paradox with Jian Wu is particularly interesting - how do you absorb an absence? How do you copy-paste something that defines itself by not being there?
And the humor: CheongMyeong's reaction to being copy-pasted should be gold. He's probably going to be annoyed more than anything.
Let me write this scene.
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Sword
It came through the door.
Not walked. Not floated. Not appeared.
It came through the door, the way a sword comes through a door when it decides to, and there is no one holding it, and it does not care that this is not how swords work.
It was a sword.
Just a sword.
The blade was narrow β€” not thin, narrow, the way a river is narrow at its source before it has anywhere to go. The steel was grey, or perhaps silver, or perhaps none of those things, because the color seemed to shift depending on where you looked and what you were thinking when you looked at it. The edge did not reflec...
There was no hilt.
Not broken. Not missing. Simply absent, as if the part of the sword meant to be held had looked at the concept of "being held" and decided it was beneath notice. The blade simply stopped at one end and became air, and the transition was so seamless that your eyes slid off it like water off a stone and you found yoursel...
It was not held by anyone.
It was not floating.
It was walking β€” balanced on its point, the tip touching the floorboards with the delicacy of a calligrapher's brush touching rice paper, and with each step the tip pressed down and lifted up and pressed down again, and the floorboards did not creak because the sword weighed nothing, or weighed everything, or weighed s...
It entered the Half-Moon Tavern.
And it looked around.
"Looked" is the wrong word. Swords do not have eyes. This sword did not have eyes. But something about the orientation of the blade β€” the way it turned, the way the edge faced first one wall and then another β€” conveyed attention with a clarity that made the eyes of every person in the room feel redundant.
It saw Dugu Qiubai.
It saw A Qing.
It saw CheongMyeong.
It saw Jian Wu.
It saw Dugu Jian.
And it stopped walking.
The silence that followed was not silence.
It was the memory of silence β€” the ghost of a quiet that had existed before the sword arrived and was now so thoroughly annihilated that its absence had become its defining feature.
Old Bai opened his eyes.
He had been meditating. He had been at peace. He had accepted his role as a witness to the impossible and found a strange, monk-like calm in that acceptance.
He opened his eyes, saw what was standing in the middle of his inn, and closed them again.
"Not today," he whispered. "I reject this. I reject this on behalf of every innkeeper who has ever lived."
No one heard him.
Because the sword was doing something.
It started with Dugu Qiubai.
Not his body. Not his sword. Him β€” the thing that made him Dugu Qiubai, the accumulated weight of sixty years of seeking and fighting and finding nothing at the end of it all. The cold crystalline depth of the Bright Jade Skill. The oceanic vastness of Innate True Qi. The river-wide meridians of the Wedding Dress Divin...
Six supreme arts. Six answers to the question of internal power. Six oceans inside one man.
The sword looked at him.
And they were gone.
Not destroyed. Not suppressed. Not drained in the way the Northern Darkness Art drained others. Gone β€” as in they had never been separate from the sword in the first place, as if the sword had simply remembered that it owned them and was now repossessing its property.
Dugu Qiubai sat at his table.
He was still Dugu Qiubai. He still had his skill, his experience, his sixty years of mastery. His body was still strong, his reflexes still sharp, his sword arm still perfect.
But the six divine arts were no longer his. They were the sword's. They had always been the sword's. The distinction between "the sword's power" and "the power the sword allowed him to use" had simply become visible.
His face did not change.
But something behind his eyes β€” something that had been burning since he was fifteen years old, since he first picked up a blade and felt the world fall into focus β€” flickered.
Not went out. Flickered.
The way a candle flickers when you realize the room was never dark. The candle just couldn't see the sun.
Then A Qing.