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[paperbutterflies]

Lan Sizhui

missives | encounters

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un: yiling patriarch

[downswing]

( How to sic your child on the other parent — )

Sizhui. A boon: mind senior Wei and the spirits that draw him.

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[ Sizhui stares at the network name.

Stares at the message.

For like 0.2 second but still enough to sigh softly.

What went wrong now? ]

I will do my best, Hanguang-jun. Although I hardly need to tell you that if they are wronged, it would not be easy for him to stay away.

[downswing]

( One day, small child, your username will also be forfeit. )

An army, whole. He and it both unstable.

un: absterge (sadly) | paranoia: a post-poison guideline

[downswing]

Sizhui. For a fortnight, wed caution: food dried and broth-barren. Brews steeped in your cup. Bathe in waters unmisted. Sleep in no quarters marked. Cleanse your cloths. Accept no gifts. Touch no strange hands or inks.



( How to avoid curses and/or poison. )

oh dad

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Hanguang-jun! Are you all right? Are you in need of anything?

I am already doing most of that, but I will!

[downswing]

They drenched poison in feeding. No dignity lives in them.

wei laozu

[weifinder]

Sizhui, I have your father's cure in the works, and Jiang Cheng's—my martial uncle's, if you give me the word he needs it still.

How are you. Are you safe, are you injured? If you've been dealing with the necromancers, have you been taking more care than even your father would, facing down Jin Guangyao?

The most timely of replies

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Senior Wei, I am sorry for being too useless, I have been trying to follow a cure as it has been suggested that the Necromancers might have one. Other than failing to complete that, I have been well.

I have been trying to take care.

[weifinder]

Be careful of their word, it's as couched in hidden meanings as the political ones back home. Better to have failed in that, I think, Sizhui. Not a loss of honour.

Has trying succeeded?

un: absterge | mid-coup!!!

[downswing]

Sizhui. Stay beside water. They send fire.

daaaad

[paperbutterflies]

It is not fast enough that I can not avoid it.

b a b y

[downswing]

At present, when you have yet to tire.

un: absterge | how a a good father discusses things

[downswing]

( Past their arrival at the lighthouse, in the relative safety of the evening hours: )


Sizhui. Your senior Wei. He is family to us.

You know him so?

RIGHT

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Yes, Hanguang-jun.

Have I given cause to think otherwise?

[downswing]

No. Accepted as family.

un: absterge

[downswing]

Sizhui. Apologies.

I mean to trouble you.

[paperbutterflies]

[ Yay for their pendants making it not necessary for him to try to use his eyes for reading... ahem. ]

Hanguang-jun! It is no trouble, please let me help!

s.......... on

[downswing]

The huntress returns.

We must prepare ranks and defences.

un: absterge

[downswing]

How fares your sleep?


( That moment when Minaras wakes just hours ahead of the Lan curfew. )

[paperbutterflies]

Hanguang-jun!

I have been doing my best. I try to use the hours remaining to the best of my abilities. It is... odd to only see the daylight rarely.

un: man's greatest treasure

[reparo]

Sizhui, do you drink? I have been given a bottle of rice liquor from a man who couldn't whip up the entirety of taxes owed to the government, much good it does him. I've covered the difference for him myself, but I still have this bottle, and I don't really want to try it alone.

... oh dear

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I do not know. Drinking is not allowed in the Cloud Recesses and I have not been tempted to try?

[ He is saying he doesn't know, not that he's not willing to try? ]

un: absterge

[downswing]

Sizhui. Apologies.

audio; in Alem

[reparo]

[context, i barely knew her]

Wei Wuxian wrote a letter to princess Cle-Florens, and now she thinks that they're engaged to be married.

audio

[paperbutterflies]

Ah... is senior Wei aware that she thinks they are engage to be married? I... believe he sometimes misses that kind of impression.