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[downswing]

( Dark and damp and Lan Wangji's pallor strained under moonlight. Behind him, flickers of broad, long temple columns — and the smoke smears of... ghosts, gathered. He seems short of breath, the silvered sheen of his sword half drawn from her scabbard, a spate of parchment papers littering the walls: active talismans. )

They have crowded their halls of the dead, to excess.

Here, the key withholds itself. Who hunts the other locations?

( And a pause, hesitant — whether to find his words or, absently, slap another talisman on the spirit that looms with a gaping maw behind him. ) Ke-Waihu stands safe?

( ooc: forwarded dated to the group's incursions in Ke-Waicai. Feel free to run into him in person, if you're also chasing the haunted temple key! )

Comments

[ensanguines]

Oh? [ He likes your initiative, kid. ]

Good job. Next time, report to me when you head out. Not for permission, I just want to know where you are.

Come back in one piece. That's an order.

[fushichou]

[This praise! He shouldn't get attached to it, considering he needs to act outside of the ramifications of the Shinsengumi, but it still feels really nice.]

You don't have to worry about me. I'm tougher than I look.

[ensanguines]

Good, because you look like you'd cry if I pinched you too hard.

[ This is, however, said downright fondly by Hijikata standards. ]

Regroup with me later. Souji will want to meet you.

[fushichou]

[He should be offended by this. Sure, he's pretty, but he's not a delicate kind of pretty!]

Please. I'm tougher than I look!

[If he says it enough times surely everyone will believe him.]

I'll find you. Hopefully this won't take too long.

[But does he want to meet Souji...]