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“If I were you,” the man says, swinging both legs over the branch, “I would ask why I’m being followed.” He hops down from the branch, floating gently to the ground as his robes billow around him.
Osamu holds his ground as the man stalks closer, dropping the stick in favour of placing a hand on the hilt of the hunting knife strapped to his waist. “Alright, I’ll bite. Why?”
The man stops a meter away, cocking his head. Up close, the embroidery on his robes shimmers like a living thing. Like a snake, curling and winding around him. “Because, Osamu, you smell like death.”
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March, I don’t know what to do.
They died in that crash. What am I supposed to do?
An unsent letter addressed to March 7th.
(Or: a missing scene from the 3.2 story quest.)
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- Part 1 of letters to march 7th
- Part 3 of wounded souls that scar
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14 Nov 2025
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summer in the meadow (a valley hushed with snow) by jello12451
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game), 崩坏3rd | Honkai Impact 3rd (Video Game)
04 Mar 2024
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“I think,” Welt says out loud, “it’s okay to be a little selfish sometimes.”
“Really?”
Dan Heng sounds like he doesn’t believe him. Welt can’t blame him.
Nonetheless, he continues. “I’ve mentored a group of kids much like you all. Young, energetic, and hearts too big for their own good.” Welt sighs. “They didn’t have the time to be selfish, too busy being heroes. So if there is room for you to be selfish, then at least the burdens of the world are not placed on your shoulders.”
“Someone has to be a hero eventually.”
“‘The tragedy does not lie in the sacrifices we’ve made for our victory - it is that we’ve accustomed ourselves to the fact that we must sacrifice someone for our victory,’” Welt recites, an age-old lesson that took him far too long to understand. “If you have something to call your own, that you can be selfish for, then the world has not failed you yet, Dan Heng.”
Dan Heng has nothing to say to that, but Welt thinks that he might get it.
Or, not yet. Just like how Welt didn’t get it, once.
But he will, with time.
OR: Welt, The Astral Express, Anti-Entropy, and then some - on the topics of moving on from the past, healing, and a long journey home.
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14 Jun 2025
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Anaxa adopts a nine-year-old Phainon. It saves both of them from hitting rock bottom.
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