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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[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.

[weifinder]

Lan Wangji.

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...no. Not of your mouth.

[weifinder]

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

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You wish your tent guarded throughout baths.

Name it done.

[weifinder]

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. )

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( 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?

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Why can we never meet halfway?

2/2

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( 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.

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Apology unearned. ( And... moving on. ) The tombs hold bones. As do the winged creatures. Why?

[weifinder]

Why are they formed of the bones from the tombs? Or why create a reminder that pelts down on the dead as they had been when living?

( sounds of walking, sounds of camp passing by. )

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Attention.

[weifinder]

Yes. A draw, to fight against, to... try to inform. She's speaking.

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To... them?

[weifinder]

To all of them, once the letters dropped. Lily and I sent one soldier to rest, by his request. Only Arha remained obstinate. She's working hardest for him. Reminders. All of them reminders.

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...of?


( But he knows. They both know, sickly and sticky on the tongue. )

[weifinder]

Does it need saying?

( sounds of water. splashing, raindrops hitting surfaces. at least the blood washes off come morning. )

[downswing]

This was ill done.

[weifinder]

It was. ( All parts. Theirs included. ) But action's required; what would you have me do?