(accidental) video; un: man's greatest treasure

[reparo]

[ -- and the camera starts transmitting, as someone pulls away from being very near Hermione. The talisman does not pick up the features of that person, at first, but what it does pick up is Hermione's faintly dazed murmur or:]

A-are you truly a witch?

[There is a brief pause, from the person - woman, you can see it's a woman (Miang-Si, if you've already met her) - in front of Hermione, before she darts forward again, darkening the view completely.

Before the trasmission cuts, from bodies pressing together too tightly, there is one audible clue: the sound of lips meeting lips in a surprisingly thorough kiss.]

- L A T E R -

[OH LOOK AT THAT, IT'S HERMIONE'S FACE. She looks a little more dishevelled than usual, a bit surprised.]

Th - [Clears her throat.] Did this thing turn on? [The indignity. Her first kiss in as long as she's been here, witnessed by the whole network. (Her first kiss with a girl, too! A woman even.) Earth swallow her up.

No, this is fine. She's going to grit her teeth and smile tensely.]

Right, so - on the bright side, I don't think Quangze suspects that I am one of her accomplices? The rest of the inhabitants still think I'm a writer of books on manners - there's something to be written about shoving your tongue in someone's mouth uninvited - regardless. I'm not - I've never met her before just now.

So, in light of that... Please all do me the favour of not mentioning to anyone that I am a you-know-what.

[ooc: Please consider this backdated to Miang-Si's parade on the 25th.]

Comments

[paperbutterflies]

Well... not unless you break the rules on purpose. It's not something that regularly happens! But obeying the rules at the Cloud Recesses is important, for our cultivation path and other reasons, [ ... he may have had a bit of a chance to see some of said reasons, and figure out more, ] and failing to obey this particular rule results in this particular punishment.

I think Senior Wei might have gotten it the most times, however.

[reparo]

Sizhui. There are four thousand rules. I like rules, and even I think that's excessive.

[paperbutterflies]

Ah... 4019. You might be surprised at how many of those are truly practically necessary in some cases.

[ He might be a little sheepish about that. ]

[reparo]

You know, I mean absolutely no disrespect, [ debatable, here comes the 'but' ] but if a rule needs so many particular exceptions expressed in separate rules, perhaps the original one was not quite well expressed to begin with?

[paperbutterflies]

It's... complicated. From what I gather it was a much smaller number of rules, but to exercise restraint, most people of the clan need ... a lot of limitations. Or the consequences are ones they regret. So instead of making them face those, there is a lot of rules, and punishments that are set and known, until following the rules becomes a habit rather than an effort.

Or something to that effect. It is not that bad, truly.