video — un: starburst.

[valeas]

( Wei Wuxian and Emilia are perched up on a tall building.

Two dragons act as their wind buffers — recent arrivals from Serthica, for those who remember the fissured citadel. The narration feels compelled to stress that despite the buffering in question, the hair of these characters billows fabulously behind them, even as they look a bit rundown.

Emilia's anger has smoldered away somewhat, a low murmur in the background. )

Yesterday, a soldier of the Hand requested Wei Wuxian and I demonstrate hand-to-hand combat for the new recruits of the army. These recruits were ferocious, unpredictable, and ... eerily good at mimicry.

Their handlers were frightened of them.

After this session concluded, we were offered a 'booster' to replenish our strength. We refused, as we learned it was essentially diluted black water. The same black waters that resurrected the dead in the arena today.

Comments

un: yiling laozu

[weifinder]

Ah, Lan Zhan, question: have you in the past applied qi to any of the dark waters? Or worked with the islanders in Ke-Whatever who were using it to farm?

[downswing]

To experiment?

[weifinder]

Yes, in part, you can throw more at it than I can, but I did know what the watering of crops looked like.

[downswing]

...I may attempt. To what end?

[weifinder]

... If I'm honest, curiosity to any response it does or doesn't have, watered down like this. We could aim to try and claim some of the viscous stuff, but I'm more interested what you can sense with the kind being given freely around to the soldiers.

[downswing]

On your head be the consequence.

[weifinder]

They usually are!

[downswing]

Far more, now.

We play with nightmares.

[weifinder]

Don't mistake this for play, Lan Zhan. Or my intent for the kind.

[downswing]

If you are readied, so am I.

[weifinder]

Mm, then... tomorrow?

[downswing]

With evening. After Messalina's will is done.

[weifinder]

Until then, Lan Zhan.

[downswing]

Care for Emilia.

[weifinder]

We will all do what we can.

[downswing]

Attempt the impossible.

[weifinder]

( a twitch of a smile on his lips, shining through a different sort of exhaustion. )

Be righteous.

( and there, in summary, they stand. )

[downswing]

Wei Ying.

[weifinder]

I have a feeling there's a roof for sleeping in my future, while Emilia will have far warmer arms.

[downswing]

Perhaps she is of kinder tongue.

[weifinder]

I would never dream of claiming otherwise!

( ... but let it be known, that again with the odd turnings of the world, Wei Wuxian is not the dangerous temper here. )

[downswing]

More mannered. Civil.

[weifinder]

... Emilia, my husband finds you flawless.

( said with a degree of amusement, and yes, aimed at Emilia herself )

[valeas]

( quietly amused: ) Oh, I suspect this change of heart of his has very little to do with me.

( they're so married. )

not actually here

[inferus]

( his wife being described as 'mannered'.......?)