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lan wangji
missives | encounters

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I would like that.

Thank you, Lan Zhan. Thank you.

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It is no hardship to honour the aunt of my son.

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Family is family. Mine and yours.

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You lay claim to Uncle?

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Not his beard!

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But you claim him as uncle.

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It's what he is.

( he's just also going to be ignored on certain things, and honoured on others, so. )

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Thank you.

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You don't need to, but you're welcome.

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Uncle and you are not... suited to intuitive proximity.

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He won't be the only elder who hasn't been.

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Show him grace.

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More than he knows.

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He is not adverse to you.

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One more thing we have in common!

I'm not adverse to him either, Lan Zhan. You should know that. I don't hold back from telling those I have no respect for that I have none.

( and while historically there have been points of contention between them, he does not wish him ill, and does not disparage the things lan qiren has managed, stepping up to lead a sect he had never thought he would have to, raising his nephews in lieu of any children he might have once had of his own. a scholar, who became what he had to, for the sake of those he loved. )

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You have offered him scant kindness.

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Is that true? Think not of our youth, ah. Is that true.

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...no. You gave him his nephew.

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And is that all?

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Shall I make his apologies?

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We don't need to make apologies for our elders, Lan Zhan, and I'm not asking for any. I think your idea of what I have or haven't done for your uncle is very different from mine, and much more weighted. He's your uncle, he's a master of his scholarship, and we're always going to press against each other's forbidden scales, but not with hatred.

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And will Jiang Wanyin come to love his relations?

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Faster than he'll come to love himself.

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You make him sound small, pitiful.

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We embrace our brothers with their faults and strengths.

In this, he is small, a baby kitten, fierce with claws to try and survive around tigers in his mind.