An ancient tradition slept in the Palace archives:
The Ceremony of United Shadows.
A symbolic ritual between two members of noble blood,
Used in olden times to seal pacts... or reconcile enemy houses.
The Yueji House proposed it to the Council, with a diplomatic nuance:
"Let the emperor and the designated omega participate, as a gesture of balance."
The elders accepted.
With distrust.
But they accepted.
—
The ceremony would take place at nightfall,
In the Temple of the Silent Breath,
A place where only energy speaks.
No words,
No weapons,
No witnesses.
Just two figures before the altar,
And an ancestral inscription in the stone:
"When the threads of destiny recognize each other,
The heavens will write what neither man nor dragon dare to say."
—
Suwei wore white and pale blue.
Jin Long, dark red, almost black.
They didn't look at each other at first.
They merely placed their palms on the stone altar.
The silence became absolute.
And then...
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