un: absterge

[downswing]

( 'lo, from the depths of the Mouse House, post-Unwinding: )

If... this were no dream. The child of the rains, bearing a vulpine mask. 'Hyang-Won' and his pale protector.

He is remembered? He did not appear as the other manifestations.

Though we have retrieves ourselves, we cannot abandon a child to nightmares.


( Guilt is strong among exorcists. )

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[downswing]

Can your portals deliver to that world?

[incantates]

That would depend on where you're planning to look.
Or is your plan to sleep and dream up more clues?

[downswing]

The world of rain. Can you re-enter it?

I beg.

[incantates]

Probably not safely.
For one, I still don't even know if it actually exists;
For another, I can't as easily dimension hop here like I can in my world.

[downswing]

Your strength is a hope.

[incantates]

My strength is my ill-advised over-confidence actually.
It generally works out, but I would rather not risk sending you to limbo
to chase a possibly mythical child.

[downswing]

It is not your risk.

[incantates]

It is if I have to live with the consequences
of hurting a dear friend and condemning them to a terrible fate.

Plus, your partner would be deeply lonely without your usual blank-faced wit.

[downswing]

A... dear friend.

[incantates]

Okay, maybe dear is not the best descriptor
but a friend nevertheless.
I figure acquaintance is a little too distant for two guys who plugged a bunch
of leaking holes together.

[downswing]

You owe no debt.

[incantates]

But *you* owe *me* one for helping you out
on the high seas.
Consider this me cashing in on the favor by requesting you
stay put and don't chase after spectral children into other realms.

[downswing]

Debt owed to you did not rival a life.

[incantates]

And how many people would have ended up on the bottom
of the ocean without me?
I would think that earned me a couple of lives.

[downswing]

Magnus.

[incantates]

I hope you're going to follow that with "–is correct. I
am exercising poor judgment right now."

[downswing]

Magnus.

[incantates]

"–is also beautiful, witty, intelligent, great at his job, flexible" I can do this all day.

[downswing]

Magnus.



( It works on Wei Ying. )

[incantates]

"–is amazingly talented, great in bed, knows all the lyrics to every David Bowie song, has perfectly coiffed hair."

[ he's not Wei Ying. ]

[downswing]

Magnus.

Shameless.

[incantates]

Don't pretend you don't secretly appreciate me for it.

[downswing]

Respectfully disagree.

[incantates]

Well, at least think about what I said.
As a great philosophical girl group of the 90s once said, "Don't go chasing
waterfalls. Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to."

[downswing]

Mmmm. Waterfall currents draw under.