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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[weifinder]

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

[downswing]

Listlessly. Too polite to latch.

[weifinder]

Ah, but a hold around the shoulders, that's standard even as adults, right?

[downswing]

If he cares for an elder as his crutch.

[weifinder]

Right, right, that's for agemates, isn't it?

[downswing]

He numbers several friends of merit.

Wei Ying would approve.

[weifinder]

Friendships are important, of course I would!

Though there's something else I approve of, esteem very highly even.

[downswing]

His cultivation.

[weifinder]

Hahaha, amended, there are many things about Sizhui I'm glad in the learning of, yes.

[downswing]

What do you approve of?

[weifinder]

The depth and breadth of his father's care, feeling, and instruction.

[downswing]

Not for you to disapprove.

[weifinder]

Presence of one doesn't indicate assumption of the other.

[downswing]

Show me a part of him that could go unloved.

[weifinder]

I couldn't, even if such a thing existed.

( there are the only parents he remembers, and the strengths and weaknesses he's learned from them. )

Love given to a child shouldn't held as scarcity. Or conditional.

[downswing]

Brother. Uncle. The sect. The rabbits.

He has been cherished.

[weifinder]

That was the only life any of us wanted him to have. I can only speak for a few, but thank you, Lan Zhan. Thank you for giving him that.

[downswing]

...enough. He earned.

[weifinder]

He did, and I'm still thankful.

[downswing]

Learn him, as he is now.

[weifinder]

Gladly, as I have been, and for decades going forth.