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Yong'An

This setting is large and wondrous, but it can also seem uncaring and isolating.

The Dolphin Bar

This place is a refuge for the narrator, but it is also a place where she gets sick and/or experiences disturbing revelations.

The Narrator's Novels

These writings are the narrator's attempts to try to make sense of her own experiences, and others' interactions, with strange beasts.

Sorrowful Beasts' Smiles

This expression symbolizes contradiction because it is incredibly beautiful, but also the mechanism of a certain type of beasts' death.

Birds

These creatures are sought-after, but they are also outlawed due to a wrong-headed belief that they are dangerous to humans.

Heartsick Beasts

These creatures are synthetically created, and they appear to often be used as companions for humans - especially children.

The Wood From Flourishing Beasts

This material is very valuable and precious, but its harvesting requires the killing...

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