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The woman's sharp teeth were striking as she smiled. "I'm a demon."

Yan sha didn't flinch as she had considered this, but didn't want to affront the immortal. She shrugged indifferently. "Isn't it the same thing? You both play with mortals to achieve your own ends. Both are dangerous. Do you have a name or something you'd like me to call you?"

"A name is a dangerous thing, little child. You have many -- Qing, the Lion of Jungpi, Yan Sha, your highness. You know the power of them and use them freely. Why don't you begin with the name you feel is your new identity."

Yan Sha considered this. "I didn't choose any of those names. They were given to me by other people."

"Mine are the same, people who know little of my true nature giving me sounds to say what I am. Demon. Goddess. Hecate." As she did this, her form shivered and grew white. The voice grew louder as her form shrank to that of a simple black cat. The cat ambled forwards to sit in the circle of Yan Sha's lap.

"Have you ever given yourself a name?" Yan Sha asked curiously as she began to pet the cat behind it's ears. The cat licked its paws as Yan Sha did this.

The cat turned its head, "You're a strange girl. All who have come before you will always scream and run. They will try to find a way out of here. No one has ever touch me like this. You have no fear that I will kill you."

"There was warm food and this is a pleasant place. The water is like a sweet bath. The food is something I know. What is there to fear? This would be a very pleasant place to die. If you do want to do that, can you do it so I will not have to suffer. I would love to go to meet my father."

The cat put it's paws on Yan Sha's chest. "Happy, despite knowing your father is dead."

Yan Sha had to say that the cat's fur was the softest thing she had ever felt. She leaned into the cat's body. It was warm here strangely and she luxuriated in the texture of the fur. She wanted to sleep, but she sprang up, "Are you the second task?"

The cat purred and began licking her face, "Are you scarred, little one?"

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"I want to go home," Yan Sha said suddenly. A wave of exhaustion ran through her again.

"Home? Do you have a home to go back to? Your father is dead."

"Zaiyuan is not dead."

"Langhua is a demon. You cannot have a moon without the sun out to burn you. She's even worse than me. She's planted her own seed within you in case you try something funny. But she wasn't finished with you, which is why she was distraught when you left."