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SUBLIME

superlazygirl

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2 – Spider's Web

Deep in the heart of Won Shi Tong's library, a solitary soul handled the precious scrolls with the delicacy usually reserved for a newborn child. His soft exclamations of "ooh!" and "ah ha!" echoed within the ancient walls of the magnificent library. Every piece of literature, every piece of knowledge, made his heart twittered in his chest and it was like falling in love over and over again.

He came across a particularly old document. He carefully unrolled the fragile parchment and his hazel eyes scanned the faded calligraphy.

In time immemorial, Koh was the keeper of knowledge and wisdom. His web helped spin the world into creation.

He is a cunning spirit and his scheming separated day from night and summer from winter. However, people would often make fun of his strange appearance and he would get revenge by playing tricks on them. Koh began to control others with his strings and learned how to separate a face from a body and a soul from its host. Because of his troublemaking, the Avatar forced Koh out of the human world.

Professor Zei's heart beat furiously in excitement at this new development. Even here, inside this house of knowledge, information on spirits was rare. He had spent countless hours trying to discover the nature of the spirit world in which he now resided, but the hunt was going less fruitfully then he would have liked.

But was that all to the story? Surely not! He dove back into his research, determined to find out more about this mysterious, dangerous creature.

In the roots of a timeless tree, Koh waits patiently until the day when he can once again spread his web across the human world.

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AN: Eh. Not quite as pleased with this one as I am with the previous one. However, I have discovered that Professor Zei is quite possibly my alter ego.

Also, I'm drawing a lot of parallels to the spider-trickster Iktomi of Lakota mythology. Iktomi and Koh seem like they could have been drinking buddies back in the day.