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lan wangji
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Mm? Lan Zhan?

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In some time, is this the first thing you name your own?

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... Well... I guess it is?

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...relish it.

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.......................... You know, Lan Zhan, that makes everything sound ominous... are you in trouble with Mollassesina?

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I am supporting my husband.

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You are, of course you are, I just worry too, ah? Since I can't be in the same place, not right now. I don't like walking out of step when it's not our choice.

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We are of a mind.

Lethe. Pomegranates.

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You, within a shi or so. Yes.

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...yes.

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In the meantime, are there any teas you won't drink?

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...Wei Ying. Between us, there can only be hot water.

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You'll note that's not actually answering the question I asked, ah?

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I wish for hot water.

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Arranged.

Unless for bathing, in which case, I know private bathing chambers in public bathing houses.

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To share.

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If only we were still talking about hot bathing.

( sounding amused, but the sigh is for dramatics, and yes, genuine: but he's not shy about wants, knowing he's allowed to have them. )

Tea it is.

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That day. I do not begrudge water.

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... Which one?

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My visit to Yiling.

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( there's still a sting, a bite, even after the time and distance between. when he'd been so horribly happy that lan zhan had visited; when he'd realised there was nothing for him to offer but water. no tea. tea cost far too much, and they weren't growing anything in excess to be able to use as a tincture instead. )

... I still wished I had anything else to offer. When you'd come so far.

( in retrospect, from a distance, an act wei wuxian knows he was not lauded for doing; not when the lan clan had been aligned as it was at the time. as it was for many, many years later.

breaking rules. how many ways had that been a choice, step by step? the later ones... )

Lan Zhan. I've something else for you, when you're here.

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( Ah, but to be a man learned in the way of the Patriarch and therefore Suspicious. )

What is it?

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Useful!

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But... what is it?

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Salve.

( For easing. )