inbox | eastbound

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lan wangji
missives | encounters

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[weifinder]

I don't ask for sympathy. I have little, beyond knowing what it is to be short in sight for what you wish you could control.

We do our best to guide. We can't decide for others, even when we feel we might know better. But this way, we know one of the tools he can call on, ah? We're prepared.

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If you wish him assisted, I lend you my strength. Not him.

[weifinder]

That's all I would ask of you.

Thank you.

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What spurs you to aid him?

[weifinder]

Safety of those I care for.

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You see your face on his own.

[weifinder]

A shadow, yes. We don't think along the same lines in many things.

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For his sister.

[weifinder]

Because how he defends his sister, his brother, his siblings, is not how I have.

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...Wei Ying.

[weifinder]

Lan Zhan?

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Not even you could have saved everyone.

[weifinder]

No one can. Working together, we can try to limit the losses. Just took too long to understand there were those who would stand side by side and try.

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To learn late is not to neglect.

[weifinder]

It isn't.

Which is why I speak with you.

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Perhaps... Jiang Cheng and you should reconstruct her tablet.

[weifinder]

Ah... yes. We should.

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You fear he will deny you.

[weifinder]

( ...................... he's touched and also vaguely uncomfortable he's this Known. )

That may in fact be true, yes.

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He will not, in this.

[weifinder]

Then I'll try to be brave.

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You have never known a day of cowardice.

[weifinder]

When it comes to the ones I care for most, I have.

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But learned.

[weifinder]

Little by little. I fear his loss more.