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[paperbutterflies]

[ This... was supposed to go out to Wei Wuxian only, but since Sizhui wasn't sure it would be able to leave the stone walls at all, he may have sent it a bit stronger than it should have been. So it can reach... anyone at all. ]

Senior Wei, since Hanguang-jun is likely asleep but you probably are not, could you make sure there are enough people on the watch. I was on it but ah.

I am inside the ... rocks. I'm fine! Just can't find a way out.

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[weifinder]

Listen, Allison was in there previously, she said she doesn't know how she was brought out, but she was. Keep yourself and Lady Catra safe, and also see if you can sense any openings overhead—the flying creatures, the harpies? Allison said they rose from tombs and flew out of a temple inside the stone. It's possible you're in part of that, that something pulled you in, whatever pushed her out. So there may be a way up, if it's not controlled by whatever magic seems to control them or the entrance either.

[paperbutterflies]

I will look for one, Senior Wei, thank you.

[weifinder]

Sizhui? ( A pause. ) A-Yuan, take care. You have this. You and Miss Catra both.

[paperbutterflies]

Senior Wei, we will be all right. There doesn't seem to be anything trying to attack us at this time, so you be careful, too, out there.

[weifinder]

I'm not the one encased.

( he makes himself smile to say that so it changes his tone, but his eyes sure aren't, to the nothing currently viewing them. )

Study everything you can while in there, it might indicate the way out, or the why for the snatching walls. This isn't like the saber tomb's curse, at least, and for that I'm thankful.

[paperbutterflies]

Yes, Senior Wei.

There are a lot of images on the walls. When I am out, I will paint them for you and Hanguang-jun. And ... from what I heard about it, no, probably not.

[weifinder]

( considering he'd have been buried, and slowly suffocating, a certain father is noooot going to do more than say: )

Not at all.

( firmly, because pulling Jin Ling out of the wall repeatedly where bones and the rest had been collected was a Very Different Concern at the moment. and he's not going to handle it well if it becomes a concern. time to take over a ghost army? time to take over a ghost army. )

Mm, we look forward to your artistry at that time. Ah, the air flow, have you identified where it's strongest, and how fresh it is?

[paperbutterflies]

[ ... we're definitely not doing that, no. Sizhui is fine. Currently. ]

I am not sure there is much of that, other than what we create by moving. Or breathing.

[weifinder]

Pay close attention, you have air in there, and air can move where nothing else but water might. If nothing's moving but what you two stir, move carefully, move less. Speak little.

( son if ur lacking airflow that means ur gonna die don't tell him there's no moving air okay )

[paperbutterflies]

Yes, Senior Wei. I am thinking this conversation rather than speaking it out loud already, although we will need to move, in order to perhaps find a way out.

Flying up is the first thing.

[weifinder]

Move at pace, breathe evenly. Tell me what you discover when you go upward. Be prepared for your father contacting you once he's up.

( Which is not that far delayed, let's be honest, as it's what he'd set off to do as soon as the wide statement had come in. )

[paperbutterflies]

Yes, senior Wei. We will be all right, it is fine for now.

Perhaps there is an opening going down and we will be out of here in no time.

[ ... a few hours still, but details. ]

[weifinder]

Describe what it is you find, either way.

[paperbutterflies]

Of course! [ Proudly. ] And it doesn't waste additional breath to think at the crystal!

[ He understands about limited resources now, better than he did before remembering. Air... would be pretty important to not waste. So he's not. ]

[weifinder]

( A small huff of laughter. )

No, it doesn't. Nor does it hurt that I can chatter as much as you like to fill your silences, at no cost to the breath in either of your lungs.

[paperbutterflies]

Am I also silent that much, then?

[ Bright kind of curiosity, not any kind of guilt. ]

[weifinder]

You are a perfectly pleasant amount chatty, could ask for no more, and no less! Between you, me, and Lan Zhan, we cover the full spectrum!

( Trying so, very, hard for levity. )

[paperbutterflies]

Then I will keep it up, then.

[ The amusement trails off soon, however. ]

Some of the paintings on the wall change while we're not looking at them.

[ On the upside, with magic at hand air might not be a big problem.

On the downside, there is magic at work. ]