Group portrait/unique world view
There is a well beneath the foundation of No. 6 Tangfang Lane. The well water is warm, thirty-six degrees, and the ripples on the water surface spread from the well walls to the center, as if something is breathing underwater. That thing isn't a Kalashtum, it's older than a Kalashtar. It was there even before the well was dug. It's waiting for someone.
Qingyuan accepted a C-level mission, but the thing in the well was not in any classification system. It knew her necklace, the warmth of her palms. It had been waiting for her for sixty years. But she wasn't the one it was waiting for. What it is waiting for is a little girl who lost half her life at the bottom of a well, a woman who dared not speak while wearing a six-pointed star necklace, and a woman who promised to "come back when I grow up."
A new team member came to the third district, named Song Ying. She didn't know why her necklace glowed until she met He Miao, a woman who used her breathing instead of speaking. He Miao said that something in the well was calling her. Every day and every night since 2008. It's saying, come back.
They went into the well not to destroy anything. It's to bring back things that have been left inside. A button, half a life, a promise made when I was five years old.
Will the abyss sprout? It will. As long as someone remembers to see it.
Purpose: "Abyss Bud" is not about conquering the abyss, but claiming it. Forgotten promises, severed selves, buried roots - when a person finally looks back, buds sprout from the abyss.
