Inbox: Eastbound

[paperbutterflies]

Lan Sizhui

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[downswing]

No song. Senior Wei is challenged by the deathlessness of the grounds.

[paperbutterflies]

Oh!

He would be.

I wonder if any of the cog creatures can give some answers. Like, are there some with nothing to rot them, and if there are, what happens to them...

[downswing]

You wish to make the attempt.

[paperbutterflies]

Do you advise against it?

[downswing]

Some say to 'attempt the impossible.'

[paperbutterflies]

[ The one whom Sizhui has witnessed Hanguang-jun treat with utmost hostility for most of his memory.

But... ]

Yes, Hanguang-jun.

At worst, we will know no more, is that not so?

[downswing]

Do not attempt alone.

[paperbutterflies]

Would the cog sphinx hurt me for asking questions?

[downswing]

Do not.

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Yes, Hanguang-Jun.

[downswing]

( WHEN YOU PUT IT LIKE THIS — )

It cannot be asked of you.

[paperbutterflies]

[ He was just agreeing to comply with what his senior instructed! ]

But...

Who should it be asked of?

[downswing]

...apologies. I speak as the father of a child.

You are a man.

[paperbutterflies]

[ Wait

No

... maybe? But no. ]

No apologies ever needed. A man or no, I would be guided by Hanguang-jun's wisdom.

[ Hence immediately confirming that he would comply! ]

[downswing]

It is not wisdom, but fear.

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I would comply all the same!

[downswing]

One day, it shall not be so.

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[ Sizhui considers for a long moment. ]

Not without a very good reason, I hope.

[downswing]

In my youth, I did not await reason.

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

[paperbutterflies]

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? ]

:>

[reparo]

Wei Wuxian mentioned something about your uncle showing you how to shake off the effects of alcohol with your aura? I think.

[paperbutterflies]

Ah.

He hasn't, but I think. I could try figuring out how to do it.

Would that not be wasting the bottle?

[ Provided he manages to do it well enough on the first try to actually fully neutralize it with his core.

Which he won't. ]

1/2

[reparo]

It would be science! Who could call it wasting the bottle if in the process you learn a new thing?

But I don't mean to put pressure on you. I'm also happy to just hold onto it until I can give it to someone else, except...

[reparo]

We're young and we haven't had a chance to act our age and make stupid choices.

I hate to say it, but Wei Wuxian is right. We should at least drink our age once.