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Lan Sizhui

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

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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...

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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.

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[ Sizhui... well. It is complicated. He knows that the rules that govern the Cloud Recesses are there for good reasons, even if he doesn't know what the reasons are, not clearly. And there is... a lot of grains of salt to take Senior Wei's words of advice with. He has known the man happy, as well as deeply unhappy, and while other things have been manipulated to reach that latter state... his own actions and ways of living left him vulnerable to some of that.

And, yet... ]

You are not pressuring me.

Will it be your first time also?

[reparo]

[She just...reads that. Over and over. That big brain of hers decides to take a promenade down to the gutter, and if anyone asks - she'll blame the time at sea. It changed her.

She should chalk it up to cultural differences, and not take it to mean...what it can also mean. So, honesty:]

Sort of.

I have done it before, with Lily and Wen Qing, but never with the intention of actually getting drunk.

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[ Sizhui remains totally oblivious to the double entendre. Completely so. ]

Oh. Because you said we should drink our age once.

[ And so he thought she had done so fewer times than that.

After a moment. ]

Will that be the intention now?

[reparo]

Yes. Don't tell anyone, I don't want them to feel bad, but I was holding back with them.

Well, or maybe the better term for it is behaving myself. One glass and done.

However, I have a bottle now, so. We can look after each other, make sure it doesn't end in chicken theft?