Toward the Shore

Yuanxi x Lin Song

Tribal goddess x botanist

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She is a goddess born in a desert oasis, entrusted with hope from the moment of her birth.

Her people adore and revere her, but they also confine her.

Everyone tells her that she can speak with the gods, but she has never heard a divine voice.

Yuanxi cannot tell whether the gods have forgotten them, or whether there are no gods in this world at all.

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A rare plant grows in the desert oasis. Lin Song crosses thousands of miles of desert to find it, but is captured just as he nears the oasis.

The mysterious people have their own culture. Their proud goddess walks over the hands of her tribespeople to approach him.

He doesn't find the rare plant, but he does encounter another resilient presence in the desert.

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She was born in an oasis, yet she has never reached one.

Yuanxi, I came for you.

*This story is entirely fictional. If you can't accept a bad ending, please don't read it. This is a short story.

Theme: Break free from feudal ignorance