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Wei Ying (魏婴) | Wei Wuxian (魏无羡) ([personal profile] weifinder) wrote in [community profile] eastbound2021-08-19 02:37 am

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

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. )
somebadnews: (176)

[personal profile] somebadnews 2021-08-28 01:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He's a what. Five reads that a few times before he gets back to writing. ]

I wouldn't expect that backstory to play so well in jail.

If it's all for show, why assume it's any different for him? It doesn't sound like he discouraged any of them from participating the next time, assuming they don't all end up with you there.
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[personal profile] somebadnews 2021-08-28 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I think we all got a glimpse after your friend's video.

[ Which is to say, he watched from a distance. He has an obligation to see that his family didn't get swept up in it because they think they can... do what Wei Wuxian just did, basically. It only now occurs to him that he hasn't accounted for all of them in the last few hours and there's still a few missing. ]

You didn't recognize anyone else there? Or anyone who didn't seem to know what was going on?
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[personal profile] somebadnews 2021-08-28 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
So he's hiring his own guards to take care of them. You're expecting it to escalate if there's another protest?

Nobody I'm worried about. You would have noticed them.
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[personal profile] somebadnews 2021-08-28 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
If it suits our purposes, we might as well take up a collection for them.

[ No comment on the last part. He said what he needed to know, and there are other people can read this. ]
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[personal profile] somebadnews 2021-08-29 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe you can get us a discount.

So you're just going to ride it out and wait for someone to come get you?
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[personal profile] somebadnews 2021-08-29 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
Right. You can probably take a nap and they'll wake you when it's time to leave.
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[personal profile] somebadnews 2021-08-29 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ He was joking... why would you sleep?? How is he this trusting. But it's not really his concern. ]

Maybe keep one eye open, just in case.
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[personal profile] somebadnews 2021-08-29 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
[ That is absolutely not what he said at all. He refuses to admit that he can't always read social cues. ]

Why not? I'm sure you're running out of things to talk about.
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[personal profile] somebadnews 2021-08-29 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
[ Oh. Well, that's different. ]

I didn't think they had that problem here.
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[personal profile] somebadnews 2021-08-29 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ That makes sense with necromancers, but at least they don't have undead walking the streets. Or maybe they do. They've been eager to help him with his problem, but so far he's kept his distance. ]

How did you feel about them?
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[personal profile] somebadnews 2021-08-29 07:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ This is news. He wonders why they're so interested in what he's carrying around inside him then. ]

Do they practice anything else, or does it all tie in with the dead?
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[personal profile] somebadnews 2021-08-29 12:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[ That answers that. ]

I can see why you'd want to learn from them.