un: wei laozu | audio | day after the summit

[weifinder]

Passing along a few highlights of my conversation with Asgeirr, our resident scholar ghost possessing a cloak from, oh, Sa-Hareth, that may be worth noting.

The citadel has raised and lowered itself, by a mechanism he believed connected to its central clock, for ages. However, it was largely for defense in the past, and the dragons were their primary form of offense in that defending. The civilians were kept safe. At that time, there was also no blurred lines between the dead and living—you could determine who and what was dead, and who and what lived.

( a pause, and he adds: )

He suggested it might be a thrall to the territories, or a freezing of the person at moment of death. Or that it might be something affecting us, but while that's clearly true, I don't think it's that specifically targeted.

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[weifinder]

Only you might strike me speechless.

[downswing]

This, then. Recourse to the silence spell.

Flattery, and shameless Wei Ying succumbs.

[weifinder]

( he laughs, unheard and unseen. aching in the best of ways. )

Flattery only matters when spoken from one close to my heart, coming from close to theirs. Even my face can be thin!

[downswing]

All of Wei Ying is thin.

Emilia has taught a remedy.

[weifinder]

I think the one for that involves meat and more rice.

[downswing]

And spice. She has instructed.

[weifinder]

With every spice, including hunger, she is a talented cook.

You can also simply give me a container of chili oil, then let me season as I wish. That should last me a good week or so!

[downswing]

Care displeases you.

[weifinder]

I have no idea what to do with it, Lan Zhan.

[downswing]

Accept your due.

[weifinder]

Peace, Lan Zhan. I am trying.

[downswing]

Apologies. It is... as if to say, you do not know to breathe.

[weifinder]

Consider me as a fish, ah? I know how to breathe, but the manner of it is different from what you know. I'm learning other ways. Slower than I usually learn.

( the divide between people and emotion vs concepts he can throw himself into, or techniques that only require application of skill and practise. )

[downswing]

No haste chases you.

[weifinder]

Only a light.

[downswing]

Take a whip, if you wish me disciplined.

[weifinder]

I'm sure we can come up with kinder, more creative means.

[downswing]

If I overstep, speak plainly.

1/2

[weifinder]

Lan Zhan...

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[weifinder]

Lan Zhan. If what you want, or what you need, is me handling a whip for your sake, or whatever form of discipline, then I will. Not in hate, and not in anger. But for you, and anything it needs to be for you.

I can't say I get it right now, if that was a serious request? With how you responded, I felt like it was. But I don't need to understand it to accept it, ah?

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[downswing]

( Of all the men, in all the cultivation world.

Of all the fire-prone disasters.

Of all the living, breathing, abyss-loving nightmares.

He had to marry this one. )

[downswing]

( F o u r times over. )

[downswing]

( He thought this fool was the right idea, four times over. )

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[downswing]

( Any deeper of an exhalation might rupture his lungs. )

...Wei Ying.

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[downswing]

I am not of Jinlintai appetites.