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Random mermaid
A thing which I reckon every single person on earth should be told relatively young, as in, pull an eighteen year old aside for a private conversation and tell them: smart people are not immune to bullshit. In fact, smart people are often more susceptible to bullshit, especially their own bullshit, because smart people are better at rationalizing it and sliding it past their own common sense and better judgement.

Shintaiden sits on Zaori, the first and the last, fragmented and fickle, the phoenix of the little world. But now Zaori stands stolid where Haydrahliene once faltered, and Halorien, the servant, is dead, its functions merged into the singular Shintaiden.