inbox | eastbound

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lan wangji
missives | encounters

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I vowed.

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How do we protect them in travel?


( No, wait, wait. )


The witches.

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Seeking their thrallings? I leave you to ask the one bound to Wrath, you won't like if I do.

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For your flirtations?

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For hers! You'll mostly not notice. Or you will. Don't unsheathe Bichen, ah?

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She woos you?

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She woos everyone.

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( Damn, Emilia. )


Hardly.

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No, she does. Actively. Forgive her for wandering hands and a silken tongue, but be firm with them? Or tell her you're untried in springtime, she might ignore you then!

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( When your virgin ears know not the slang of young folks. )

I am tried in all seasons.


( With a sword. )

1/3

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( uh.

okay. that's not bad? that's... far from bad, but he's taken utterly aback, missing in this moment that his husband is missing the poetic turn of phrase's meaning. )

2/3

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It was a long almost two decades, hahaha, of course you are, of course you are...

3/3

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Tried and tested? By many?

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Hundreds.

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Hundreds?! With your sword!? You—did you never kiss anyone?!

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Unnecessary to satisfy needs.


( ...for slaughter. )

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( here he's just. what. )

But sheathing and leaving was adequate?!

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Wei Ying.

We are not infants or innocents.

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Ahahaha, I don't know what you thought I was up to before Nightless City the second time, Lan Zhan, but I was very innocent! Very innocent!

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( Were... all of Wei Ying's casualties murdered by his dead? No blood on his own hands? )

I treasure it.

Jiang Wanyin and I often dallied. Forgive our wrongdoings.

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( he actually squawks when he reads that, and starts laughing, disbelieving. )

You and my brother? In the springtimes of your youth?!

( this would explain so much of what's cold silence messed up between you two now??? )

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We rallied during your absence.

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That's one way to find comfort, I guess?

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It troubles you. Apologies.

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No, no, a little, I'm... confused? How you both managed to be like that with each other given how you refuse to talk or not kill each other now.