audio | un: yiling laozu

[weifinder]

( Is it the sound of the sea swelling and escaping the shore behind him when he speaks? Or is the the shrill cries of the winds that batter at the walls and gates of the city? Who's to say, who's to say?

What Wei Wuxian does say is this, throat parched, picking slivers of wood out of his hands: )

Miss Hermione and I fell into the knowledge of why Cosette was at sea on the Headless Dancer, a decade ago or so. They were investigating a mirror shard attracting watery beasties offshore of Ellethia, under Ellethia's governing council or court or whatever it was. They weren't the only ones looking for the shard, but they were worried if they didn't find it first, that the institute of technology and magic might, fearing what that would mean in their power-hungry hands.

( A breath of laughter, tired, sad. People do not deserve the massacres that find them on the heels of other people's grasping greed. Or arrogance, a folly which he cannot claim himself innocent. )

We know how that race ended. So. How are we laying Matthias low without letting Anurr run wild in this city of death?

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voice;

[reparo]

Do you know, something tells me that the daughter Matthias is looking for might be one who he harmed...

[downswing]

Repelling.

[reparo]

I think you mean he's repellent. Which, yes. He is.

[downswing]

He is. Deserving no mercy.

[reparo]

No, none. As much as I've hesitated previously, when it comes to this particular monster I have none.

[downswing]

...better, always to hesitate.

[reparo]

[Ha - always a treat to realise that he's proud of her for the bare minimum. She wants to give him more than that. He deserves so much more.]

If you ever see me not hesitate, feel free to knock me out. I do not court his type of magic - never, ever.

voice;

[weifinder]

There were more of us on board, one might have spoken with her?

( which will be a rewarded curiosity in a few hours, when Benedict is up and speaking on network )

voice;

[reparo]

...oh, of course. [She's connected the dots that the woman will be on the ship, and therefore yes - dead. Cursed Matthias. Stupid Institute, too.]

That was a good find. Right?

[weifinder]

Yes, it was. Understanding more of the past is how we understand where to progress in the future. Or more immediately, with Matthias now.

[reparo]

In that case, there's more you should know. Red and I, we found the old room of a lady named Arabella - a scientist on board the Headless Dancer. They were investigating a power source under water.

She wrote that - the power source, which she called also a rift, was acting like a strong pull. Pulling creatures through time and space.

[weifinder]

Like what happens with the gateways? Is it what he was originally manipulating, once he gained control, after killing all he did?

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[reparo]

I thought he was manipulating the dark waters - except now that I think about it, the descriptions of that power source... Deep underwater, attracting sirens and all sorts of local fauna.

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[downswing]

Perhaps it is not territory he wishes, only the man removed.

[weifinder]

I may have been inclined to believe as much when we were just outside Sa-hareth, but now?

[downswing]

You think him uncontainable?

[weifinder]

I don't know that he'd choose containment, with what happens once the Brotherhood is fallen and fractured. Who is handling him and the rest after?

[downswing]

You believe, in killing Matthias, we unleash Anurr.

[weifinder]

More, how do we keep Anurr from gaining too much in Matthias's fall?

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[somebadnews]

[ Five fully expects Anurr to take over, without Matthias in his way. Speaking of someone who was easily corrupted by the wind, he's not sure there's really a solution for them. It's unfortunate that he feels largely responsible for dooming the entire world. Isn't that usually the way it goes? ]

Half of his power was trapped in a mirror before. Could we do it again?

[weifinder]

It's a possibility. Then do what with the mirror? Think we can release the energy outward instead of back to him? Or send it through a gateway?

It staying here doesn't mean it remains untouched or unfound, as you know.

[somebadnews]

Lock it up, somewhere better than a bank vault that anyone could break into.

[ If it were possible, he'd seal it in Matthias' corpse and let it torture him like it did the man in the lake. He doesn't know how it works, but he does know it did before. ]

I kept the shards.

[weifinder]

We may as well try. If nothing else, it might seal away part of his power — it's possible I can make a seal to draw in his power specifically...

( he hums in thought. )

[somebadnews]

[ At one point Five had considered jumping back in time to undo his mistake with the mirror, but he didn't explore using the same method to trap him again. He also never asked if it could be done. ]

If nothing else, that might buy us time. I don't know that the shard have anything left in them, but they're yours if you can use them.

[weifinder]

If we even manage to keep him bound within his current body, it may help. Given his attitude towards the bodies he wears otherwise.