A Blade and an Arrow

Experiences

n. i published this one in ao3 like a few days ago, but might as well publish it here too. :)
i am aware many of my readers here haven't been able to read my works in ao3 as well.

besides, someone here might want(or was not introduced) to read female Feng Xin. :D

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"Gods could change their forms, right?" The young worshipper asks. "They could also change their genders?"

"Indeed they could, young one." The man smiles, curious and interested. "However, what made you question such thing? Would you want to change your form? Listen here, there's nothing wro-"

"I would love to change my anatomy." The young teen says quite too eagerly. Brushing the hems of his robes as though his statement was an equal to saying they love the stars and moon. "I would like to feel what it's like to touch my own female genitals. I hear it's even slimy and wet compared to those of boys when stimulated."

"I-I - what?" The man, dumbfounded and all too surprised to even continue trying to be pleasantly poetic. "You would want to have female genitals?"

"Yes. Is that wrong, good sir?"

"No - no, there's nothing absolutely wrong with that." He smiles, a bit forced and mostly genuine all the same. "You've heard of the wind master constantly changing forms, yes? If he's doing it and he's a god, then there's nothing wrong with wanting to change your anatomy."

Then his eyes slowly slides to that of a specific man entertaining other worshippers of the temple. "But... may this one know what had perked your interests in that kind of topic?"

"I don't know, really." The young teen shrugs his shoulders, pushing off a lock of hair out of his eyes as he frowns. "I had woken up one day, and suddenly had this urge to just have a vagina instead of a penis. Is that wrong to say? In the temple of a martial god?"

"No..." The man slowly trails off. "No, I don't think so. It's alright to be open to this, especially at a young age where you're curious to everything the world has to offer. There's no shame in it. It's not disrespectful unless you're saying it in the temple of a god that walks the path of purity and abstinence."

The young teen tilts his head. "Like, general Xuan Zhen?"

"Ahem." The man clears his throat, his face contorted in that of a conflicted expression as though he was no long sure if abstinence and purity could be used to describe the southwestern deity. "Perhaps, yes and no. Haven't you heard of the southern god's story?"

Another worshipper quickly pipes in. "The one where the two gods found love in the midst of chaos, and proceeded to fight the world in order for their love to exist in the heaven's animosity?"

"... That could be one to say it."

"What do you mean, jiejie?" The young teen's eyes grew perplexed. "I have never heard of that one before. Is that true?"

"Oh yes, it is!" The girl pats the young teen's back. Already so keen to spread the reality to those who haven't heard of it yet. "The fall of the previous emperor, Jun Wu that had turned out to be Bai Wuxiang, started it all! It's so abrupt that some had even said the love would never be out in the open if it weren't for that calamity!"