un: heart-fluttering hummingbird | audio (forward-dated: 24 May)

[downswing]

( A silence to his mouth, begrudging. The words, when he does speak them, gravel between teeth: )

...apologies. The blood in the northern halls will want more hands for the washing.

We made insufficient attempt.


( ooc: posted today for ooc ease, but assume this comes up after Sizhui/Eleven/Mingyu speak with the miners, around 24 May. Alina and Lan Wangji have given the miners their mercy kill, before they could fully transition, and removed the bodies from where they were kept... but clean-up. )

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[scrapgege]

[He is not dead, but he has no reason to lie either. What good would it do anyway? And it's not like that knowledge is forbidden or likely to be used against him.

But he's going to keep scrubbing while he answers, because that blood won't clean itself.]

When I first ascended, they called me 花冠武神, the Flower Crown Martial God.

... Many things happened after that, but I was banished from the Heavens. Twice. So I spent most of my time as a God in the Mortal Realm, alongside humans. Actually, I ascended again for the third time not that long ago.

I don't know that I would still call myself a Martial God, or that anyone else would, really. It's not really that important either. But I do count as a Heavenly official.