audio | un: yiling patriarch

[weifinder]

We've just heard from our friend Haltham about the fighting between Unhalad and Anurr forces nearby, so here's a question for everyone, brought up originally by our companions who got themselves drugged and fight-happy against the second living: what actions do you think we should or shouldn't take?

In Haltham's encouraging words, think wisely. Whatever we're doing or not doing has an effect by merit of choice. Also, a reminder that we still need to not end up in either's hands or revealing our location, given the reason we were summoned here has not changed, and our deaths can be a benefit to either side. Our lives benefit ourselves and our rescuers and the peoples here, by keeping us out of warlord hands.

( He's not opening up with his thoughts because he doesn't want it as a discussion against his take, but as people offering their thoughts after he asks the question. )

Comments

[weifinder]

I'm not shy!

[downswing]

Then, accountable.

( He hears what you did. )

[weifinder]

... For what?

( Believing rumours again or... )

[downswing]

Aid you supplied without due diligence.

[weifinder]

... I... which aid was this?

[downswing]

You found your god subjects for array trickery. Now, he proves false.

[weifinder]

... Next time I'll ask how one is planning to accept or transfer energy, ah?

( How could he foresee this coming, it's too absurd! )

[downswing]

Ask all things of strangers.

[weifinder]

Why, because those who are not strangers to me will always offer all they know, unasked?

[downswing]

( Hissed: ) ...Wei Ying.

[weifinder]

( Chipper: ) Lan Zhan?

[downswing]

She took what was yours, and I did not cut her path.


( Remember that. )

[weifinder]

( He sighs. )

When I don't know what leading questions I need to ask, I only learn that I should have asked those questions after the fact.

[downswing]

You are no child, to be guided.

[weifinder]

Is information not useful at all ages? I've never expected or been handed everything without asking, Lan Zhan, but adapting to every single person having wildly different, unguessable expectations of what something means that you have another expectation of is a work in progress. I'm doing what I can. If I need to extend that to guessing what the familiar should mean to, fine. I'll do what I can there too.

[downswing]

( This man, who wastes a hundred words to speak his mind: )


You begrudge my silence.

[weifinder]

I know you're not talkative, Lan Zhan, I don't begrudge that. Your silences are your own. It's when it comes to certain things which aren't about you, I just... feel like it's becoming a pattern, and I don't understand the why.

[downswing]

You asked of transfer, to segue into reproaches.

[weifinder]

( A longer pause, and an exhalation as his footsteps still; for a moment, there is only the wind. He speaks again, a touch more solemn, lips pursued and brow furrowed, unseen. )

This Wei Wuxian oversteps. I apologise. This one will see you later at the farm.

( To set to walking again, and silence, releasing the activation of the communication thrall. )

[downswing]

This one will wait. As ever.