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A child failed in Ke-Waihu. Again, in Serthica.

Here, young Princess Cle-Florens, convinced of duty as sacrifice. We cannot abandon.

Elsewise: beware the Wards, the Gut's Bind. Death wanders.

If you have come possessed or hell-tainted, speak.

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Lan Zhan! I'm so proud! You're using multiple sentences talking with everyone!

You're even discussing things at length with many people at once, which is

... Entirely misleading through succinctness.

The child has made it clear her understanding of the world is formed by the older men in her life, and at this point, predominantly her brothers. You'll need a brother to declare her sacrifice to live is more important, so she can believe that instruction, as she's been taught.

Given that, she'll have a reason to strive for life, and a goal outside the fortress, that isn't "die when expected." Or else you're asking for her kidnapping and then loss of all familiar world for... what? If both brothers fail to survive, do you trust her to her uncle? To whom if not he? You're not seriously suggesting that her mistaken belief that she need impress herself upon the first male outside her family she's exchanged letters with is your entire plan for how to carry her off?

She kept impressing on me how anyone betrothed to her gets her dowry when she dies. "My" opinion on her living leaves no impact. I'm not sure what in the world she expects out of a marriage right now beyond the idea, the fantasy, of someone caring for her for whatever reason before she walks into whatever situation her family demands of her.

You're better educated, better allowed to believe in yourself, and yet, Lan Zhan, in how many things would you willingly and willfully go against your brother's wishes? How often when you were young?

See what Haiva or Deimar believe in relation to blood sacrifice and the sealing of hell. Or find records of what sealed this gateway hundreds of years ago. Or have someone write a letter as if they're Deimar, then secret her away until he ends up dying, because the man certainly doesn't act like he believes he's going to outlive this siege.

Also, this is the rudest way to ask for a divorce that I've yet read out of your mouth! Lan Zhaaan, why are you so cruel?

You don't hold affection for me anymore...

You wish to see me cursed to caretaking children to keep me out of trouble...

Joke's on you, Lan Zhan, taking care of children causes exactly some notable number of my troubles!

Please don't curse us both to lives that never experience springtime, Lan Zhan!

That's a metaphor for lovers being intimate, Lan Zhan, it took me two months to figure out you had no idea what it was because my brother also had no idea what it was, which makes you both brilliant fools I'm overly fond of.

Anyway, what were we talking about? Your call for abduction and lack of plan for follow through?

( this smacks of "i want to take him to Gusu" husbae )

( See, beneath the roof of Heavens, what he must resolve to bear?

...he does not cease talking. It goes, it ebbs, it flows, it does not stop. )

( ...ah. But better this, than deathly silence. Grave grounds ill mourned. )

Wei Ying.

( Start as you mean to go on. )

( Gently, gently, gently ease him into stillness: )

How do you fare?

( Manners, renown to resolve half of every conflict they don't cause. )

I crown you King of Omissions and Subversive Silences.

( ....first pacifying attempt failed, on to #2. )

My husband is ill pleased.

Evasive, he swims in his pools and creeks. Watch! Heed the shadow running deep, beneath calm surface! Feel the power that drowns, taste the aged peat and vinegar.

Unworthy, a graceless man.

( But... returned to the matter at hand. )

They say her suitor might have finer odds to persuade her.

They didn't read the letters, you did. What do you think of that suggestion?

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