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. )

Comments

[downswing]

Respectfully disagree.

[weifinder]

See?

[downswing]

Do not.

[weifinder]

( he laughs, soft: )

See.

[downswing]

I do not.

[weifinder]

When Sizhui is an elder brother, I think you will.

[downswing]

...when.

[weifinder]

You like children, don't you?

[downswing]

( The. Most. Strained. )

Unequivocally.

[weifinder]

So how many?

[downswing]

As many as the Heavens provide.

[weifinder]

Of cultivation capacity, ah?

[downswing]

...preferred. ( A pause, then softer: ) Misfortune does not neglect those bereft of qi.

[weifinder]

Homes to find for many. Mere mortals... even they could benefit from children's homes, and ones to inherit trades and legacies.

[downswing]

Accept them. Cores do not condition care.

[weifinder]

No, but even I will live too long for them. I don't see more grief, Lan Zhan, only to secure their futures with hope.

[downswing]

Fearless Wei Ying knows fear.

[weifinder]

Fearless Wei Ying has long understood fear.

[downswing]

( Ah, pretty trinket. How your despair shines. )

You wish them possessed of cores.

[weifinder]

I wish them not starving, with futures, whatever presence or lack of core.

[downswing]

Wei Ying. Yes.

[weifinder]

Does this mean we're getting married again, or that we're convincing the Merchant to fund a world-local orphanage before we're gone?

[downswing]

'And.'



( Why 'or' ? )

[weifinder]

Works for me!

[downswing]

Wei Ying's turn of duties.



( Since Wangji's choice of nuptials keep..................... coinciding with disaster. )