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Dan Heng (The Hunt, Wind)
A cold and reserved young man who wields a spear known as Cloud-Piercer. He acts as the Express' guard on its long trailblazing expedition.
Dan Heng never talks much about his past. In fact, he joined the Express Crew to escape from a past of his own making.
But can the Express really help him outrun his past?
Character Story, Part I
A new dawn begins.
It's just another extremely average day aboard this giant ship. The markets have just opened and the morning dew is still fresh, but the young man crossing the street has never seen such a sight. Before he manages to notice all the differences between the actual city and its descriptions in books, he is immersed in savoring the warmth of the sun on the back of his neck.
It is his first time seeing his own body clearly. This body belongs to him. It belongs to this current name.
When he arrives at the port, the escorting soldier removes the last of his shackles. He walks forward without looking back. He can feel, ever so faintly, several pairs of eyes gazing at him from within the city. Eyes filled with hatred.
It isn't until the spaceship takes off that he turns his head and takes one final look at this place. It really is a magnificent and grand spaceship — just like the books say.
He only glances at it once, then turns his head away to where the stars shimmer dimly and an uncertain future lies.
He looks out in silence.
Character Story, Part II
A new dawn begins.
He steps off one IPC spaceship, then boards another. He'd never even heard of the ship's destination, but that doesn't matter. There is nowhere he particularly wanted to go. His only goal is to get as far away as possible from his past, from his “home.”
On these spaceships, people come and go all the time. None of the IPC crews care who he is, so long as he can work.
He has changed his appearance and might no longer be recognized, but he knows that same power still lurks within him, unable to be shaken off no matter where he goes. This power drags him down, slows him, tries to overwhelm him, and makes him unable to escape his past. He has to be careful.
But he still can't shake off the man with the beastly eyes.
If others in his homeworld felt hatred toward him, then that man only has a killing intent toward him — even the spaceships he had traveled on were all annihilated. That man had died before him, but would reappear soon after.
Outside his homeworld, there's a larger world where anything is possible.