audio | un: xianxian of yunmeng jiang

[weifinder]

Bear!? Bear! There was a bear in the bath!

( So comes this startled and startling shout, as elsewhere in camp, Wei Wuxian is (unfortunately) streaking past in damp, confused glory, a bear of arctic composure lumbering after him, soap bar still in mouth. Come back! He was just handing the soap over, he wanted to help! )

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[weifinder]

... I just wanted a bath, Lan Zhan, and now I've run the came mostly nude with a bear after me. Aren't these things only supposed to happen to younger men, ah? Aren't I too old for this?

( that voice, now evolved into... that whine. )

[downswing]

Too old. Wrinkled. ( A strategic pause: ) And safe?

[weifinder]

Distinguished. ( His correction, likewise a complaint. ) And safe.

[downswing]

The ancient requires assistance?

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Directions to a pool come dawn... this is disgusting. I feel so gross, Lan Zhan.

[downswing]

You wish for more bath water?


( Going to take that gamble? )

1/2

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Ahahahaaaa...

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One bucket's worth? I've rags...

[downswing]

The Yiling Patriarch, fearing his bath water.

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It's not like I have an impressively large cave pool of my own anymore, ah? Don't leave next time!

[downswing]

Wei Wuxian.

[weifinder]

Lan Zhan!

( he's not escalating to Lan Wangji HE'S NOT ASKING TO BE ATTENDED, JUST NOT LEFT FOR THE BEARS )

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I cannot.

[weifinder]

You want me to be molested by a bear?!

( BAETRAYED )

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Wei Ying runs aptly.

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Lan Wangji.

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...no. Not of your mouth.

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( just a sounds of frustration on this end, bitten off. )

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You wish your tent guarded throughout baths.

Name it done.

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I'm handling it.

( no more tent baths, he's found a bucket and he's heading to the water with an umbrella he just ganked. he's got this bae. )

[downswing]

( Give him a moment. And another, stolen. )

...why?

[weifinder]

Because I am filthy.

( Not an implication, not any direction: he just exhausted himself running through camp with a bear chasing after his rear, he's in arrears, and he's saving his rear, and he's fine but maybe also: )

Arha's tomb. Worth unsealing, or not?

[downswing]

Why can we never meet halfway?

2/2

[downswing]

( And not a heartbeat later: )

Resentful energies?

[weifinder]

You know where the waters are.

( it's not personal, right now; he's tired, and he's not on his best, even when he rubs his face unseen with the bucket hanging from his crooked elbow. )

I'm sorry, Lan Zhan. And yes, there are in the tombs, I don't have a good read on his in particular, only that it refuses to move.