un: absterge

[downswing]

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.

Comments

[weifinder]

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.

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[downswing]

Unworthy, a graceless man.

[downswing]

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

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

[weifinder]

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

[downswing]

Wei Ying possesses cunning.

[weifinder]

Enough to convince someone to look away from a lifetime of belief without question?

I offered other ideas, not more palatable but more likely. We also have chance to simply keep her alive, as a bodyguard might. Or solve their Hell problem before they decide a child's blood is the only way forward.

[downswing]

We are but a handful.

[weifinder]

I know. So we choose. Will one of us guard her?

[downswing]

We may. But they may overpower.

[weifinder]

We know. But we're not alone. We can reach out to each other. We can have backup plans. Yes?

[downswing]

You do not believe in abduction.

[weifinder]

I would see no child die.

But I know that it doesn't work when the person being taken isn't ready for it. We can know better all we like, but we can't force someone else to agree.

So protect her as we best can, and make sure she's not left to die, at the moments where that's likely.

[downswing]

But remove her, should odds worsen. Agreed?

[weifinder]

Her and the other children. Yes.

[downswing]

Agreed.

lmf this comes after a long beat

[weifinder]

We can remain married.

BUT wait

[downswing]

Already dissolved.

LMF WOW

[weifinder]

Huh.

So anyway, Deimar is unmarried, is he not?

:' )

[downswing]

Hasten.

You must fit his marriage before your following wedding day. Ready your reds.

[weifinder]

Working on a proposal for Haiva too. Big event!

[downswing]

( Well then. )


Master Wei pivots swiftly.

I shall pay silver to his dowry.

[weifinder]

You'd be paying me my own silver.

[downswing]

( This delightful, wilful, shameless son of a brilliant mother. )


Marry me instead.

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[weifinder]

( He loves you, Lan Zhan. )

You make a convincing argument.

[weifinder]

Proposal accepted. When do we wed?