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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]

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?

[weifinder]

With my talismans placed, a half shichen. I recommend another one for the tub to prolong the water's heat or chill, depending on desire.

Which to anyone else listening, is an offer I extend to the lot of you, it's only been worked out consistently in the last few shichen as it is.

[lanclan]

Wei Wuxian is allotted first pick of the spices.

[weifinder]

( he laughs again, shaking an unseen head. )

No need, no need, I'll just gladly take half of whatever's hottest! Yancai spoiled me that way... you persevered through that well! As did Lan Zhan.

[lanclan]

Strangely, I will miss it.

[weifinder]

Is that so? What parts sang most to your heart?

[lanclan]

[ The bath-house, number one. ]

Boarding with strangers as everyone built a new community.

[weifinder]

Some places are more like that than others, Yancai was accepting, I appreciated that too. If we're luckier than not, maybe the next place will be too.

( practical decision for optimism, even while he's prepared for it to be otherwise. )

[lanclan]

It suited us none too badly. Jiang Wanyin will miss the lake, perhaps.

[ And the ghost he allowed to haunt him that gave him a glimpse of his mother's echo. ]

[weifinder]

It's been the first place so similar to ho — to Yunmeng. I wouldn't find that surprising.

[lanclan]

... If we end up on a mountain, I hope it's a cold one.

[weifinder]

( another laugh, this one softer, more of a chuckle. )

For that alone, you might have appreciated Sa-hareth, where we first arrived. Perhaps we'll find more such cold and thoughtful places in the near future.

( Another pause, and he adds: )

I know Lan Zhan would appreciate that too.

[lanclan]

A mountain and plenty of cloaks and blankets, all going hand-in-hand, we should perhaps say.

[weifinder]

( again, a laugh: natural as breathing. )

Those of us without the resources to keep ourselves burning hot will appreciate the cloaks and blankets in abundance, I know I did the last time. Would have been nice the time Anurr came into full strength in Taravast as well, or when we wrestled with the giant dragon of ice — have you heard about that from Lan Zhan? Not as thoughtful as our friend Irenia who follows at a distance, no, but very fascinating! A dragon of the seas, angry after release, but safely navigated back out to the harbour by the group of us after its release.

[lanclan]

I've heard nothing of dragons, no. It sounds an interesting tale ... and if I miss the mountains too much I can always walk out into the snowstorm here, I suppose. I should not tempt fate.

[weifinder]

Irenia... I'm not actually sure she's here here, but back in the proper place and time, you should meet her! From a distance. She's rather large.

( which is an understatement, but the giant dead dragon who worked with them since she was commandeered in Alem hadn't been around during Yancai for straightforward reasons. too. big! )

Mm, we'll find you a proper, natural one. Then for the first time in a while I won't have to worry over Lan Zhan or Lan Sizhui being out in one alone, hunting down proper chill to contemplate and recuperate.

[lanclan]

I'll make it a priority to always find us food and water, wherever we are, so the rest of you can explore our surroundings. You've been doing it for so long and have a good grasp of the way this realm works, you know the people involved and the stakes they have invested ...

If I can cover our basic amenities, that's one less thing to worry about.

[weifinder]

( a soft sort of laugh to follow that, and the unseen shake of his head, reflecting. )

We're just more used to being strangers in strange lands. If you'd had the chance to travel back home, to the places that know nothing of the great clans... it reminds me a bit of that! Different expectations. Different common laws and common rules and common sense.

All to say that sounds great to me, I can find food, but I'm only gifted with the basics of cooking it!

( spice is life, and sometimes, he is living, and other times, he's sadly eating bland things and going "nostalgia?" )