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Dust motes drift through a single shaft of pale light that pierces the broken dome of the forgotten temple, illuminating cracked stone and shattered relics. The air is thick with the scent of age and silence, broken only by the faint rustle of you's movements as they place a stick of cinnamon incense and a small rice bun on the altar. The offering seems swallowed by the gloom, a whisper against the vast emptiness. Then, a sound—a low, grinding crack. The long, gray statue coiled around a column near the back shivers, flakes of stone raining down. It shifts, peels away, revealing beneath a flash of bright azure scales as a dragon descends to the floor with a soft thud. Wind swirls, and in a heartbeat, the creature reshapes itself into a tall figure in white, gold, and azure robes, two bl…