Difference between revisions of "Wan ShaiLu"
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She is given a room barely better than a cell which, over time, she transforms into the finest room in the whole palace with Forgery.{{tes ref|76}} She receives her Forgery tools except for her Essence Marks. [[Gaotona]] volunteers to being her test subject for the soulstamps she creates for Emperor Ashravan.{{tes ref|30}} The arbiters hire a [[Bloodsealer]] to make sure of her cooperation.{{tes ref|3}} As they work together, Gaotona and Shai grow fond of each other and eventually become friends. Shai starts to collect information on Ashravan's personality and memory to use for the soulstamp.{{tes ref|5}}
Shai concluded that the arbiters were planning to kill her, even if she fulfills their agreement, a little while before the soulstamp is done and have another Forger finish her work. She started lacing her notes with subtext about the arduousness of the task to deter the other Forger.{{tes ref|58}} All the arbiters except Gaotona proposed that she create a backdoor to the emperor's soul that would allow him to be controlled by the arbiters. Shai played along but eventually refrained from doing it, even for herself.{{tes ref|17}}
As her hundred days pass, Shai was constantly tempted to escape but was driven by the challenge of the task.{{tes ref|76}} On day ninety-seven, just before she finishes the soulstamp, she enacts her plan to get past the Bloodsealer. The next day, Captain [[Zu (Sel)|Zu]] tries to kill her, a move she had expected from some of the guards and managed to evade by Forging traps into her room. She escaped and made her way to Ashravan's chambers, desperate to see if she had managed to Forge a soul from nothing. When it succeeds, Gaotona gave her back her Essence Marks and she used them to escape the palace.{{tes ref|98}} It later turns out that she didn't reForge Ashravan's soul exactly the way it was and made small changes, nudging him on the path to being a better ruler.{{tes ref|epilogue}}
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