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π’Žπ’π’Šπ’“π’‚π’Šπ’π’† π’…π’‚π’Žπ’π’…π’“π’†π’… ([personal profile] cairhien) wrote in [community profile] eastbound2022-04-21 11:51 pm

video β–Ί un: bluebird

( it's awkward enough that this is being conducted in the middle of a market, with a couple of teenagers that moiraine had managed to gather together but the fact that they're putting it to the group as a whole as well? atonement, it's a serious things. and she's not wanting to risk any ill effects of leaving this.

this is also going to be the most carefully worded psa you've heard -- she can't lie and what she's going to say goes against what she's done )


I've travelled to many cities, many villages, even before yours. Some of the people there have never travelled outside of their own village, may never even have dreamed of it but they as much as anyone appreciates hearing the stories of what the world is like. ( even if to them they are only stories, many of the events are disbelieved as true as they may be )

I suppose even before I travelled I was as unaware as they are, knowing little more of the places I would see than the stories I'd heard or the people I'd meet. ( and this is where she pauses, a careful look given to her partner before adding more ) It's the people that you meet on the way that tell you the most. Sometimes those offering your kindness would seek something crueller instead, whether it's immediately or revealed much later. Your trust is something to guard.

( their... trust, Lan Wangji does not reiterate, but for the northbound pull of his brows, and how he looks distinctly tortured by this educational moment. one of the nearby teenagers interrupts her mooning to briefly consult a giggling companion, mouthing, is he well? )

...trust. ( truly, martyrs have suffered less than lan wangji in this moment. ) Is sand caught by hungry hands. Slipped, it cannot be regained. Only lessens at each trade.

( another of the teenagers, scratching the top of his head, mutters fiendishly aside, wait, is this about merchantry ledgers? lan wangji’s eyes shutter to wish away the world. it has not excused itself, when he gazes at the children, again, then, helplessly, at moiraine: )

Soulmates, partners of merit. Entrust them alone your truth, sword and flesh.

( ...and β€˜lo, the collective groan of the crowd indicates the teenagers have suddenly realised just what lecture they’ve stepped into.

there are small blessed mercies that he took her lead, that he said the words she's glad she now doesn't have to specify in detail. and what she might not have been quite able to say )


The people we can have around us are the ones we need to trust, to not need to question whether they should be with us, whether we can talk to them or be with them. ( she might not blush quite as easily as she did as a girl but that doesn't mean she really wants to get too descriptive about sex. though when some of the teenagers are starting to leave maybe that's better )

And what we do shouldn't be questioned, shouldn't be doubted. Are those you trust ones you completely trust? Or have you had doubts before. Certainty, honest knowledge is more blessed to have than you can know.

( it's at this moment thankfully the embarrassment for the two ends as they finish up, ending the network before dealing with any remaining teens.

none. there are none left )
downswing: (tonally deaf)

β†’ moiraine

[personal profile] downswing 2022-04-21 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
( And beside her, a shrivelled husk of himself, reduced by indignity but surviving through sheer stubbornness, one Lan Wangji blinks on. )

They heeded.

( And no stones or rice balls were duly cast. That... went better than expected. )
downswing: (legends)

[personal profile] downswing 2022-04-21 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
( And no bruising. The deed, for all his cheek will never pale from feverish flush again, has been done. )

You sense a transition?

( There was a curse point to this, after all. )
downswing: (deed done)

[personal profile] downswing 2022-04-21 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
( ...else they have martyred the last shreds of their dignity, for nothing. And yet, noteworthy: )

We have not stormed them with untruth.
rumorate: (34)

video | @taken for granite

[personal profile] rumorate 2022-04-21 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[There's definitely a few moments where Allison open and closes her mouth as though she doesn't know how to address this. Eventually, she settles on just sitting them out.]

Are you giving them an Abstinence Only talk?

[She's pretty sure that the metaphor Lan Wangji used is the same as the chewing gum or old sneaker metaphor but she knows that neither of the people involved would recognize that.]
downswing: (十)

[personal profile] downswing 2022-04-21 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
( And here, the brief, staggard fall of his mouth, tenderly agape. )

...you deceived them?
downswing: (theodora)

[personal profile] downswing 2022-04-21 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
The ways of local curses are winding.

( Read: Yes. )
downswing: (extend)

[personal profile] downswing 2022-04-21 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
A life.

( And he needn't slip or tease or coax the implication, Of intimacy.

Ah, to be a scrap of a tutor, a less-than-worldly scholar. To find oneself husked of the strength and conviction required to bear on one's back the riddles of this conversation.

To turn one's gaze away, rapidly. )


Apologies. You were sundered of a companion.
weifinder: (clever boy | you're looking)

yiling laozu

[personal profile] weifinder 2022-04-22 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
( here he stands, holding up a finger, brows raised, staring at the image projection which in turn means he's staring through it, at them. looking torn somewhere between amusement... and painstaking restraint from laughing. )

So, are we speaking literally only here, or are you planning to 'entrust' your metaphorical truth, sword, and flesh to meritorious hands sometime.

( did you really just lecture a peasant village about sex. did you. did you really. )
traaaaaash: (uh huh.)

[ video ] un: owl lady

[personal profile] traaaaaash 2022-04-22 06:27 am (UTC)(link)
So. Any reason this needed to be a public broadcast?

[ Not that she super minds, but it is a bit weird. Look at them, they're clearly embarrassed. They could've saved themselves some embarrassment. ]
reparo: (bombarda)

un: man's greatest treasure; 1/3

[personal profile] reparo 2022-04-22 08:52 am (UTC)(link)
[You know, she sees Moiraine and Lan Wangji on the network and thinks oh this must be an important message, so she's there. She listens. She...unfortunately, listens.]
reparo: (herbology)

2/3

[personal profile] reparo 2022-04-22 08:52 am (UTC)(link)
[What the fuck.]
reparo: (care of magical creatures)

3/3 video

[personal profile] reparo 2022-04-22 08:54 am (UTC)(link)
So, if one does not have a sword to entrust to our [the most sarcastic airquotes] soulmates, does this whole sermon not apply?
reparo: (care of magical creatures)

[personal profile] reparo 2022-04-22 08:58 am (UTC)(link)
[JUDGEMENT, oh wise one.]

Chastity and abstinence lectures don't prevent teenagers from having sex. They just teach teenagers that you aren't the source of information and education they need to know how to approach safe sex.
reparo: (care of magical creatures)

[personal profile] reparo 2022-04-22 09:02 am (UTC)(link)
[DEADPAN.]

Yes, because trust is what prevents unwanted pregnancies and STDs.
reparo: (defense against the dark arts)

[personal profile] reparo 2022-04-22 09:09 am (UTC)(link)
[She spent hours writing accessible leaflets on the values of feminism and you just lectured people to wait until they find their soulmates.]

I am just saying, it won't work. You're better off asking the wind not to blow.

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