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username: yiling patriarch

( Rise and shine, to coarse, near-dawn rasps from a gently borrowed quartz piece. Overheard in the background: meowling winds from the settling snow storms, the yawning bustle of early-morning trade, and the sharp gasps of a crowd. )

Bring salt, wine, water and joss sticks to the marketplace. ( Murmured: ) They've sullied their dead.

( A pause, stretching its legs, until a child cries over the 'armless men there.' )

We cannot be as animals, to leave them in indignity.

( ooc: ...response usernames will vary, depending on whether he's still at the marketplace or back at the House of Dew and hoarding Wei Wuxian's device, since he's too himself to get his own. )

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[weifinder]

Ah, but I'm the bigger flirt with you than they are?

( a pause. )

I'm kind of impressed!

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But not challenged.


( Don't even. )

[weifinder]

No, no, not challenged, you tease back these days, imagine anything else?

( shameless has levels of being able to handle things, okay

he's fine at this level of... flirtation, since the other level involves a sword he doesn't have, and anything else is beyond credibility )

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...assist, then. Claim their interest.


( It is not so difficult a thing, for Wei Ying to capture attention. )

[weifinder]

So you think if I'm flirting with them they'll stop flirting with you?

( he's fairly sure you can flirt with or at multiple people at once, but hey, it's not like he isn't used to congenital redirection! )

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Wei Ying draws the eye.

[weifinder]

( He would say he works at that, but lately, he's been working to not do that, so it strikes him as more amusing, and biased, based on everything he is back home. )

Lan Zhan, don't say that, I've been trying to do the opposite! Here I thought I was doing so well...

( It's easy to partly sound like he's whining when it's cold and he is inclined to whine anyway. With a snort that follows, and a deliberately put upon sigh: )

Yes, yes, I can make myself more distractingly visible to keep attentions off you. I am that kind and magnanimous, it'll probably get your bath filled faster today anyway.

( Regrets. Start having them now. )

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( Ah, but how to say this kindly —





...perhaps, simply by not trying at all. )

Do not mother me.

[weifinder]

( He gasps! And coughs a little, he took in too much cold air at once. )

So don't try to pick you up, refuse to buy unnecessary things, or feed you before myself?

( He's not going to mention what other skills he gave Sizhui most a lifetime ago. Lan Zhan doesn't need to be taught how to rebind books or play off the sympathies of rich enough ladies to be idle and abundant in coin and charitable dispositions. )

Lan Zhan, really.

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( Really. But he busies himself with the comfortable shuffling of heavy weights and the staccato of ice struck, on rare occasion, as gliding happens. )


Do not think me inexperienced with hardship.

[weifinder]

I wouldn't dare, I wouldn't dare.

( ur just inexperienced with being poor and suffering hardships, it's fine )

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Wei Ying. Trust in me.

[weifinder]

I do, Lan Zhan. You have my trust, and my faith.

( the faith was, in ways, harder won. )

Trust in me too.

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As I do Bichen.

[weifinder]

Good.

Send word when you're heading back!

( a pause )

Arranging a bath, and flirting with pretty women so you don't have to deal with them, are things I choose to do. You do enough for me, what can I not also do for you? Sheesh, Lan Zhan, these things go both ways! It says nothing about what you're capable of handling to me.

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What do I do for you, here?


( Hinder, burden, delay. Provide no defence, fewer resources. )

[weifinder]

Stay by my side.

( it's one thing soul searching and grounding himself while on the road alone back home. here, it wouldn't be the same. )

Though if you'd like specifics, I can start listing.

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( Not today, friend. We are yet cowards. )


...go. See to your errands.

[weifinder]

Mm, so I will. May the rites proceed well.