eastbound | audio | un: yiling laozu

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

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

Repelling.

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 )

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

You think him uncontainable?

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?

You believe, in killing Matthias, we unleash Anurr.

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

What gain? The citadel has no resources. Only spirits.

But you think he would not stop here.

I don't. Not when he's tracked to here, and not when he's manipulating others to try and let him in.

We both know enough of what that's like, don't we?

...we do. Then, he must be frightened or barred from advance.

A wall. A force.

Yes. That or what lies within must be beyond his reach in the end.

I don't forget what Asgeirr tells of a time before Anurr, so slavery itself isn't anything this world shies from or forgets. Or what the ones enslaving the dead within the city have intended, one way or another. And yet.