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    A MDZS/Valdemar crossover for the April 2026 challenge (unlikely pairings)

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    A white horse walks into the Burial Mounds and calls Wei Wuxian Chosen. He tells her she’s made a mistake. She says Companions don’t make mistakes.

    When the Sects finally come for his head, this horse-yao offers him a way to save himself and the Wen refugees. It just requires leaving everything he knows and everyone else he loves behind.

    Wei Wuxian has never been very good at taking the easy path. He's far better at attempting the impossible. Admittedly, with mixed results.

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    Sometimes it feels like Vanyel is fighting this whole damned war alone. He’s holding the borders together with power that is slowly burning him out. The war is never ending. His control is slipping. And there's no one else who can do what he does…

    …until a newly Chosen trainee is dropped on him by a Companion that went further afield than any others dared. He is nothing like what Valdemar expects a Herald to be—foreign, sharp-tongued, and wielding a power that rivals Vanyel’s own. But he might be exactly what Valdemar needs. What Vanyel needs—if he doesn’t strangle him first.

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