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[BEHIND THE SEEMS W/ YANG WUHAN]
"Do you know this one."
>Cvaltya Stoyesek
>or Bvinosald.
>Depending on who asks.
>And whom.
>A complicated family.
>Migrant laborers and charers, most.
>Bad nature worsened by poverty
>Brute temper brought out by drink.
"She has no Core, neither Bestial not Upright; a false existence. Twelve Principals (meridian lines governing the internal organs) degenerated to a false-parasitism on the heart; Eight Extraordinaries (meridian lines that are the focus for Cultivation) likewise collapsed to enforce paroxic life: Yang Heel, Yang Link, Governant, and Penetrant collapsed; Yin Heel, Yin Link, Girding and Conceptant engorged. By this she has greater strength and gains Embryonic Breath (respiration through skin), in exchange for Yang adversarial dependence (bloodwant & sunhate) and a madness of self-possession. A tortured contradiction; the mortal suffering in satiation diminished, bestial aspect in famine heightened. What do you call this."
>A Vampire.
"The Stiff Corpse (jiangshi) fares better: at least they have no mind to understand their state. Did you create this."
>I caused it.
>To test the Bloodsoil Chalice against Tainted blood I mixed the grades of its lees with the alms to the poor.
>To certain I gave half the topmost, saving half for myself, if safe.
>To certain I gave a part of both, where the separated the Tainted blood
>bright atop and pitch under.
>To her house I gave the bottom lees, diluted, to see what speed and manner ghulefaction.
"Their life for your knowledge. Worthwhile."
>Yes.
>The mania of the ghulic Thirst is reduced by the Chalice' separation of Taint blood to bright and pitch.
>Those that ate the pitch part suffered a dryness of the mouth that reddened the lips,
>And addiction of the mind to me.
>They asked for more alms; bloodless I gave them; unsatisfying.
>Yet they applied to me after, always.
>Obeying whom alone had food for thirst
>Food to do my bidding.
>If only faith could be so bought.
"If it could be bought, you'd have sold yours."
>Yes.
"This one died, though the poison was diluted. Where did you fail."
>In giving too much.
>I pitied secretly my use of them
>I who was their shepherd.
>So gave them double their allotment of alms
>Tainted accordingly with the Chalice lees.
>I thought that because that house was many
>And a drop of Taint a bowl not deadly
>So I gave them.
>Unbeknownst two of the boys had poached bird meat
>So they gave up their bowls to her, preferring the better.
>She ate a man's worth of alm stew and began to fever.
>Yet because the Taint blood had been separated by the Chalice
>She gained no strength, only mania.
>She died parched, mad.
"How did you hide this."
>I was prepared, especially for those that ate the lees.
>Once her funeral passed I dug her grave by night to do the needful.
>Yet she rose early, not three days.
>Exarsiore (Turn Undead) only weakened her, not returned.
>I fought for my life
>The spade my sword
>Then covered her; fled.
