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[traumatology]

if you know this guy —

( here, he presents a picture of lan wangji, looking pretty beat up and battered, holding up some scales. wangji does not smile, doesn't say cheese. )

he might need a little help when we get the hell out of here. i forgot my first aide kit and the things down here keep tossing him into me like a lawn dart.

and if anyone needs these lake scales, he's been talking like their important. i'm just making sure he stays alive.

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[traumatology]

Maybe my perception is skewed.

( he smirks. )

But I've known a lot of people like that so guess I'm used to it.

[somebadnews]

[ He's getting that. No one would be this casual unless it was a regular occurrence, or they were on something. ]

Case in point. [ Said like that same impulse doesn't apply to most of his siblings. He’d continue vaguely insulting Wangj , but he’s wasted enough time, so instead he turns his gaze behind him. ]

About time they got here.

[ Either he heard something or is he’s bluffing to get him to turn his back. Don’t think too hard about it, Bucky. ]

[traumatology]

Who?

( he keeps looking at five but he does eventually glance over his shoulder. doesn't turn all the way around. )

I don't hear anything.

[somebadnews]

[ It's not quite long enough for him to grab the scale, so he smiles and waits. ]

Give it a minute.

[traumatology]

If you're trying to get me to look the other way, you could just say so.

( he's a little smarter than that, five. )

I might do it.

[somebadnews]

[ Why is he making everything so easy and yet so difficult... ]

You seem like the type to value plausible deniability.

[traumatology]

When I want to.

( he smiles easily and then shrugs. )

I'm dragging a nearly unconscious guy out of this place so I'm a little harder to convince of things.

[somebadnews]

[ He just squints back. Sue him if he didn’t peg him as being that observant. ]

Did you even wonder how I got here so quickly?

[traumatology]

Nope.

( bucky shrugs. )

I just thought maybe you ran really, really fast. Maybe you were very into seeing this guy and his scales. Why?

( did you fly or something? he knows a guy who can do that. )

[somebadnews]

Right. I ran. [ Because he was clearly very concerned about his friend here.

This is dumb, he doesn’t know why he keeps asking questions.

Huffing a sigh, he bends down and plucks a scale from the suspiciously quiet Wangji and shows it to him. If he wants to tell anyone, it’s not like they’ll think less of him. ]

This has been interesting.

[ He gives him a long look, shakes his head, then disappears in a ripple of blue. ]

[traumatology]

Yeah, interesting.

( bucky says it to the empty space before he starts dragging wangji back with him once again. )