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musewrites2026-02-19 10:36 pm
museaway) wrote in musewrites2026-02-19 10:36 pm
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Playing with a shift in tense to impart ongoing information, since I think it makes the god realm feel immediate -- as though it has existed long, long past the end of the fic itself. Not sure if I'll keep it this way, but this is the current version:
Among immortals is a rare illness, rare because of how infrequently the conditions that can cause it occur. When a god becomes consumed by longing, to the extent that they cannot keep the object of it from their mind, the desire can manifest as flowers. The shape and color vary from god to god, but as the obsession takes hold, flowers fall from the immortal in greater number, leaving trails wherever they go. Perfect flowers that do not wither or fade, for they are not true flowers at all but pieces of immortality chipped away, until the immortal root itself is destroyed.
There’s no real harm in it except for a true immortal, and only if they allow it to continue unchecked. Once the Jade Emperor learns of an affliction, he sends the god on a mortal trial, which is usually enough to set things right.
No one had died of falling flowers during Hengwen’s lifetime, but he had read stories about an ancient god so fixated on a mortal that to stand near him was to be within a grove at spring. The petals, long swept away, can still be found drifting at the base of Mount Kunlun.
Among immortals is a rare illness, rare because of how infrequently the conditions that can cause it occur. When a god becomes consumed by longing, to the extent that they cannot keep the object of it from their mind, the desire can manifest as flowers. The shape and color vary from god to god, but as the obsession takes hold, flowers fall from the immortal in greater number, leaving trails wherever they go. Perfect flowers that do not wither or fade, for they are not true flowers at all but pieces of immortality chipped away, until the immortal root itself is destroyed.
There’s no real harm in it except for a true immortal, and only if they allow it to continue unchecked. Once the Jade Emperor learns of an affliction, he sends the god on a mortal trial, which is usually enough to set things right.
No one had died of falling flowers during Hengwen’s lifetime, but he had read stories about an ancient god so fixated on a mortal that to stand near him was to be within a grove at spring. The petals, long swept away, can still be found drifting at the base of Mount Kunlun.