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The boy named Zandik likes a few things- machinery, knowledge, lies, and Baizhu.
Machines can be repaired, knowledge passed down, lies maintained, but Baizhu is dying, irrevocably and irreversibly, the same way a candle flickers and sputters in damp air before gasping away into darkness.
He lives, he dies. He lives, he dies.
Zandik plucks the petals from a wilting lily and wonders, hazily, how much death he would be willing to barter for Baizhu's life.
(The answer would make Celestia scream.)
OR: Dottore sends a younger segment back to the Akademiya. Zandik meets a boy named Baizhu, and is reminded that despite his best efforts, he is not incapable of caring.
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- Part 1 of To Life (From: Zandik and Baizhu)
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14 Feb 2026
