un: yiling patriarch

[weifinder]

Ah, Lan Zhan! I may have annoyed a magical fish because of a cultural misunderstanding and have it saying it'll nonspecifically curse me for seven years in a very dramatic way, but, uh, would you be willing to go cleanse its waters?

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[downswing]

Children require homes.

[weifinder]

Ah.

[downswing]

You disapprove.

[weifinder]

No, no! I'm just stunned at how adorable you are.

[downswing]

If not I to care for them, who else?

[weifinder]

I don't know, Lan Zhan. Once upon a lifetime passed, I didn't realise there was any surviving need.

[downswing]

Wei Ying was less wrinkled then.

[weifinder]

Hey! Hey! What's this less wrinkled! I had no wrinkles! I was very handsome, my skin was very smooth!

[downswing]

Was not.

[weifinder]

Was too! I patted my own cheeks, and then A-Yuan's, we were both very smooth!

( because he kept shaving even as the patriarch but whatever )

[downswing]

Wei Ying bathed in sunlight. Not smooth.

[weifinder]

Wow, some of us needed to use all the natural light we could to work, you know! Very smooth. A-Yuan can attest, if he remembers: he insisted on comparing after shaving, are you saying his skin wasn't smooth? So mean, Lan Zhan!

[downswing]

Better, not so smooth. Healthy.

[weifinder]

Healthy and plump, exactly as we hoped for!

[downswing]

One hoped.

[weifinder]

One hope lived. Two, really, three unknowing, but the one that mattered most, lived.

( the child. the future. )

[downswing]

He grew up well. Accomplished.

[weifinder]

A credit to his adoptive clan and his birth clan both.

[downswing]

To himself.

Perfect his bow mastery. Earn your keep.


( When Wei Ying is loitering and not, say, accruing half the party's revenues. )

[weifinder]

Mah, Lan Zhan, give him permission to hunt with you, and we'll see those skills mastered. Excuse it as my indiscretion, if you'd like!

But I will, once we have the bows. Target practise is easy after camp is set up, or if we're so pushed to sea, contained on the length of a ship.

[downswing]

He is not accustomed to confinement.

[weifinder]

Is he used to boats much at all? Caiyi sees some of them, but it's hardly what I think of when it comes to preferred means of passage for the Lans.

[downswing]

You intend to smuggle my son by water?

[weifinder]

Do you think he'd still fit on my hip?

[downswing]

Listlessly. Too polite to latch.