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. )

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[downswing]

Next turn, call on me first.

[weifinder]

Will you do the same?

1/2

[downswing]

( ...ah. )

[downswing]

Do you pledge, if I pledge?

[weifinder]

In equally good faith? Yes.

[downswing]

I wish myself the man who could vow this pledge.

[weifinder]

You will be, one day. When that comes, I'll pledge it in equal faith. Until then... I'll try, Lan Zhan. I'll try to ensure I call on you first.

[downswing]

( Give this man his moment. Then: )


Are there true criminals among you? Releasing you, do we release them all?

[weifinder]

In other holding areas, yes, but not expressly with those of us ushered down here at Lord M's displeasure.

[downswing]

Then, nothing lost.

[weifinder]

By what, cutting through all the locks?

[downswing]

Coaxing.

[weifinder]

Ah, right, nothing lost with coaxing.

[downswing]

You wish me not to intercede?

[weifinder]

If they're reluctant to let me leave before the evening falls, then please, do. Before then, there's a new one of ours, a Zuko? Who'll be acting to a play that fits someone who has confidence in the tale, and you are a man of many skills, Lan Zhan, but not of selling stories.

I would, however, I might, I practically would say sweetly, appreciate if... you had extra bread to bring. Fresh bread? Nice bread! For a blessing from the, er, reincarnation of a fertility goddess? Surely something needs abundance for your story, right?

[downswing]

Bread. Cheese. You wish to escape or feast?

[weifinder]

Lan Zhan, can you conceive of a way you would convince the guards my services as a fertility goddess are required elsewhere?

[downswing]

( With his vast experience of both lies and fertility goddesses, how can this go wrong. )

They may be pressed on the merits of your release.



( ...by his sword. )

[weifinder]

Pressed how?

[downswing]

With conviction.

[weifinder]

Is the conviction using your words, Lan Zhan, or Bichen?

[downswing]

One has yet to falter.

[weifinder]

Lan Zhan.

[downswing]

Wei Ying.

[weifinder]

Your words will suffice.