text | un: wei laozu, following the protestors being escorted to jail

[weifinder]

Dear Friends,

I am presently enjailed with a number of the protestors who did not have the luck to get free of the ordered guards. Some here have been injured, and we've done what we can on limited supplies and with limited sympathy, but it wouldn't be a terrible idea to drop some fresh clean bandages in, maybe a few poultices for healing, and also:

I probably need to exit this particular stage after chatting up my cellmates for their thoughts, to the accompaniment of the odd gurgle from the semi-conscious man in the corner. Don't worry, he's actually improving.

Remember, make love! Not violence! Makes for more fertile growing grounds.

- Wei Wuxian

( this is help, only not a distressed call for help, from Wei Wuxian, Jailbird. he's so thankful zero dogs are involved in this venture. )

Comments

[weifinder]

Carefully and without the kinds of attentions most regret, yes, I bide.

[downswing]

Ever among the defenceless.

[weifinder]

With no place to take any a one of them too.

We're asked to back one of two, but this is not something either party is setting to rights, Lan Zhan. Shadow puppets.

[downswing]

You hardly knew their cause righteous.


( But interceded. )

[weifinder]

Violence against the unarmed does not require righteousness to wish to see it cease. There are politics, regardless, and whose are better or worse I'm not making claim, or if they were stirred to do what they did, or found their own motivations.

[downswing]

Stands there a sharpened sword you will not land on?

[weifinder]

I've better support in balance these days.

[downswing]

Mind steps.

I shall find you.

[weifinder]

Minded, minding, I won't be disappearing on you.

[downswing]

Do not agitate them.

[weifinder]

Mah, now you're following that man's advice, stay silent? I'm too charming, it's the easiest way to keep tempers cooled, a word here and there.

[downswing]

Name a war I fought you did not start.

[weifinder]

So you leave the Sunshot Campaign at my feet, then.

[downswing]

No true war. Slaughter.

We prevailed for the fortune of you.

[weifinder]

And we went into that brewing fight for the way Lotus Pier was left bloodied and barren of anything but the Sun.

I know my wrongs, fairly or otherwise. I know what slaughters I have authored, and what I would not do again.

[downswing]

Tame your teeth.

We burned before you.

[weifinder]

And surrounded, I could not sit and choose inaction.

[downswing]

Now, once more.

[weifinder]

Different stakes, different standoffs. My back's not up against a wall, and the ones I care for are not held hostage or slain before my eyes.

[downswing]

...enough. Eviscerate yourself no further.

I come.

[weifinder]

Bring cheese!

... I'm not sure what kind, but it's something a number of the protestors and asking for in the way of people not so concerned about what's coming tomorrow. This isn't a place of deep stress, Lan Zhan, yeah? These people aren't terrified.

[downswing]

'Cheese.' For feeding. They starve?

[weifinder]

Some are less friend to the guards than others. No one starves, no, but it'd endear those who're looking at stale bread.

[downswing]

You wish them pliant to loosen tongues.


( He knows you. )

[weifinder]

Yes, and wine seems a bit too on the nose. Cheese for the political rabble, for enjoyable conversation. Plus then we don't have to eat the cheese!