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.

Comments

[weifinder]

You keep marrying me, really, did you think I never would?

[downswing]

One, duress.

The second, drunkenness.

The third, your game.

The fourth, impulse.

[weifinder]

Now I know you're as disturbed by the lack of difference felt as I am.

[downswing]

Lying is forbidden.

[weifinder]

Obscurification isn't! Of which, clever husband, I know you're very talented.

[downswing]

Is it so dissimilar?

[weifinder]

Ask yourself. You already know.

[downswing]

Name the lie.

[weifinder]

To me, it's never been a game.

[downswing]

And yet, you win.

[weifinder]

Ah, you're that competitive, then?

[downswing]

I celebrate your victories.

[weifinder]

Kindness, you know that, you have so much more of it in you than even you realise, I think. Lan Zhan, then you win too.

[downswing]

We are family-bound. Your victory is my own.

[weifinder]

... Then can I ask about the chickens?

( sorry.

he's.

it's still just.

he hasn't thought about this properly.

BECAUSE IT'S NOT RELEVANT TO MOST SOBER PEOPLE, LAN ZHAN )

[downswing]

( So fortunate is the fool whose wiser companion understands him. )

Sufficiently fattened?

[weifinder]

Why are you so concerned about me thinking if the cocks are fat enough when you're... ( inebriated ) ... handing them over?

[downswing]

( A smidge of rare, flickered amusement: )

...I wonder.

[weifinder]

It's not like we're going to eat them. And they weren't hens, so it couldn't be about eggs—

( look he heard some hint of amusement there, and he's willing to keep going here, for the silly, not important, but repeatedly brought up silliness from lan zhan.

but really.

shouldn't it be fat hens?! )

[downswing]

Perhaps you want feeding.

[weifinder]

I do think I've put on some weight since eating more robust meals...

[downswing]

Emilia has guided.

[weifinder]

... She's been kindness, indeed.

[downswing]

Wei Ying is cherished.

[weifinder]

So too is Lan Zhan.