un: absterge | video | backdated to pre-Colosseum rattling

[downswing]

( Behold: that inexorable moment when a man with the tolerance of a baby kitten has infiltrated the nefarious tavern of Livius Decimus, had precisely two licks of the obligatory drink, and is now alone, sword drawn, brooding morosely at a vast table covered in castaway parchment pieces that two large brown and spotted rabbits are diligently chewing on.

After fifteen seconds of blinking at the pendant: )

Greeti.. ( ...nnnnngs? ) What. did.. what did the... ( Wake up, Lan Wangji, wake up — ) Pro - presss... pros. Proscription lists. What did they look like?

( ...possibly like the parchment scraps one of the rabbits annihilates on camera, while a nearby thug gentleman of criminal arts, seemingly in the know, mutters, You son of a — )

...my son? Mmmmmmmmm. Gentle. Little... not so little? Was little. Kind. Wise. Speak of... yes. Let me speak of my son. He will never marry. Must stay little. In my coin purse. Children are... for safe-keeping.

( ...in coin purses. Does the thug agree? How can he not. )

Comments

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No.

( That moment when you are stubborn to be stubborn. )

[weifinder]

Then whose turn is it, ah?

( let us recall that the one with endless patience for stubbornness is...

..................... not wei wuxian, who is instead amused. )

[downswing]

( Whose... turn. Whose........................ )

Done.

[weifinder]

What, no more waking up to bound wrists? I was looking forward to that!

[downswing]

...bruises.

[weifinder]

... I heal fast, and who said there'd be bruising! Be gentle! You promised you can be gentle, ah?

[downswing]

...promised. ( But. )

[weifinder]

So? Are you not as good as your word?

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...irritating.

[weifinder]

I'm told I'm gifted that way!

[downswing]

Punishment due.

[weifinder]

... Like a fun kind?