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[lanclan]

I was able, with some help, to procure some spices. Wanyin, Wei Wuxian, and Xie Lian, please find me at your earliest convenience. Ruka, I have some cakes for you. Ah, and ... Wen Kexing, once you understand these devices, will you please get in contact with me too? We did not exchange details the morning after we split up. [ The morning after they shared a room, you deviants. ] Alternatively, if anyone knows this man, help me find him. He is tall and well-dressed with fine features.

Wangji. A check-in, please.

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[lanclan]

Mostly fresh, some are extremely unsuited to my tastes so I naturally kept them for the rest of you.

[ If it makes him tear up, it's good spices. ]

He's got in touch, yes. Did you get along?

[weifinder]

Ah! There's some heat in those spices, is there? Thank you for your generosity and kindness, Zewu-jun!

( there's a slew of them all here who enjoy spice, albeit perhaps not so many who enjoy it to the painful degrees wei wuxian does. their loss. )

Well enough, but I'd ask him, I was the unfortunate acknowledger of his prior abductions to this world. Not that I can say he's been the exact same man each time, too many factors we simply don't know, but these things have happened before. The goings and then the returnings, no memory of earlier times. Been more likely each time their return isn't near immediate through the gateway spitting them back out after swallowing them whole. Contrary things, these gateways! This is the first time any's taken all of us and spit us out together, the gateway seemed to connect here rather than elsewhere.

( he's thinking out loud on this, hence rambling a bit, but look. he han't been able to concoct any way to settle the spirits here, only the rumblings of what others want to do to settle vengeance on the necromancers responsible. or the singular one. )

[lanclan]

That's very helpful to know, I'll be sure to ask him about it if it seems appropriate.

[ Xichen considers how he would feel if people insisted he had been around in a place with them before when he knew he hadn't, and it will be a delicate subject. It either leads to confusion or resentment. ]

Wei Wuxian, please bring my brother out of the dungeons tonight and help yourself to the food supplied to me via the kitchens. There are rooms in the sleeping quarter I have sectioned off to fall within a protective silencing barrier, to avoid attention from the inhabitants of the house.

[weifinder]

So that's where he's off to most recently... needing an escort, ah?

( A shifting sound of fabric and someone attaining their feet. )

He already knows you wish his attendance?

[lanclan]

He knows but if you could mention you are tired and hungry, it would expedite his route here.

[ Wangji is having too much grim fun digging about in rocks. ]

[weifinder]

Ah, yes, whining! I can manage that. One very long moment...

[lanclan]

I wish you all the speed in the world, certainly.

[weifinder]

In process...!

( then a pause: )

Please tell me you didn't find millet in those supplies.

[lanclan]

I ... did not ask the ghosts for millet, no.

[weifinder]

Glad tidings!

( no millet will be suffered today! )

What did they find that was acceptable?

[lanclan]

Oh, they prepared pork buns for you, Wanyin, and Wen Kexing to eat. I thought those would be easiest for them to prepare, along with some pumpkin pancakes. Vegetable dishes for Wangji, Sizhui, and myself ... some fruit and fresh water.

[weifinder]

I'm pleasantly surprised none of those had blood or hair snuck in, the rest of their recipes have had notable flaws.

( perhaps not quite so notable as xie lian's, somehow. that's a depth of understanding for another day. )

I'm also impressed at the number of decent supplies. You have them on their best behaviour!

[lanclan]

I gave them the choice of serving me untainted dishes or having the entire kitchen repeatedly purified.

[ Not exorcism of the ghosts, no, far more insidiously Xichen would have just made the entire kitchen reek of purity and his high level of cultivation. Absolutely gag-worthy for the spirits fated to haunt the place.

He can be scary in his own way, sometimes. A little. ]

The food is safe, I assure you.

[weifinder]

( that prompts him into laughing, and he does, for a good bit. )

When you have the energy to pour into making the dead uncomfortable with their own hauntings, so sly, Zewu-jun! One to not underestimate.

( genuinely meant, such as it is. )

At least half the baths are now too, in case you wish a lack of disruptions and longer periods before the particular twists of, ah, memory they have.

( long periods between bloody transformations to what they should be, longer periods unhaunted and pristine. )

[lanclan]

Ah, I do miss the bath-house now.

[ What a fool he was not to ever truly appreciate its hot, clean waters! ]

How likely is it that a bath will go uninterrupted?

[downswing]

Wei Ying prospers on a diet of millet.

[weifinder]

No, Wei Ying prospered when the diet was broadened beyond millet. I have it on good personal authority.

[lanclan]

[ Oh my god, they really are married. ]

Wangji.

[downswing]

Brother.

[lanclan]

I do not need to know the trauma inflicted by millet.

[downswing]

He requires fattening. Limited options.

[downswing]

( JUST GOING TO KEEP TALKING. )


Perhaps brother's acquaintances may be troubled to search.

[weifinder]

Don't make me go scare the poor kitchen ghosts, I'll do it, I'll scare them away from millet delivery services and then everyone will have to suffer the same lack as you will!

[downswing]

You will not threaten spirits.

[weifinder]

I can glower very impressively at them!