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. )
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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Now we know the protestors sell their time and beliefs, whatever their own might be. This shouldn't be news to Lord M, and yet he responds touchily. Lady V benefits, certainly, but to what extent? This is known about his attitude, so who, or what, drives tipping him off and escalating against the paid complainers?
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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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[ 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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Anyway, no, not of people like us that I'm aware of. Beyond myself, everyone seems to either know another paid protestor or know a guard and is getting fed and watered by their connections. Why? Someone of yours gone silent?
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Nobody I'm worried about. You would have noticed them.
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You're not very honest with yourself, are you, Xiao Five? Fine, fine, no one down here, that much I agree is true.
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[ 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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So you're just going to ride it out and wait for someone to come get you?
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Oh, word that I hear is we're all out by nightfall, but sure, if one of the other enterprising souls doesn't come wandering first. This is more dangerously boring than dangerously anything else at present.
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Only wait, I wasn't. That nap definitely sounds appealing now...
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Maybe keep one eye open, just in case.
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Anything less than a third eye might be an oversight.
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Why not? I'm sure you're running out of things to talk about.
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I didn't think they had that problem here.
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How did you feel about them?
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Still, I'm learning. What would you seek out of them?
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Do they practice anything else, or does it all tie in with the dead?
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I can see why you'd want to learn from them.