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It is easy to make fleeting footprints in the snow;
It is hard to make lasting marks in the stone.
Shall I dance ten thousand steps, unwitnessed?
Shall I make one carving, forever known? ❤️‍🔥🥹

I took it with solemnity, met her eyes, and tried not to be intimidated by the courage in them. “Lady Song, thank you.”
She smiled. “Do not thank me, Lady Yin. There are no altruists in the palace. We all work for ourselves.” And I left her thinking of another way that words were magic—You have never spoken to them, yet they have made themselves heard. ❤️‍🔥🥹

The heartbreak, the helplessness, the fear—those had all been in Hesin’s stories.
But the anger had been mine. ❤️‍🔥🥹