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lan wangji
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It is no easy feat, a marriage.

I had thought its challenges ended with bows.

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Paths wind, yet the stars and the sun stay constant, however hidden by the clouds.

The things we cherish most we don't cherish for being easy. At least I've never found that to be so, who knows?

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You are as changelings.

Each day, I think I know your face, but find one new.

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... That's attractive, right?

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I believe so.

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Then that's all that matters!

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Is it so strange a thing? To love even that which challenges?

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Not for me. What would I know of anyone else's thoughts on the subject?

( asked softly. so very, very softly. )

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Perhaps we should ask others wedded.

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( The longest sigh. )

In which case, you mean Emilia and Wrath, who from what I can tell, also didn't know they were married for a portion of time?

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Perhaps... aged pairs. Crones and old men.

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Know you many? I won't count the family that pays for my guarding as being a goodly example. The woman's married five times. Divorced three. Widowed once.

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Surely they exist at each marketplace.

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They do, people marry, stay happy, stay in the give and take, like the tidings of seasons.

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Would you... consider it? To remain here. Happy, through the tidings of seasons.

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... You and I?

( the question really: alone? )

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( Without those whose life would benefit from improvement and advantage elsewhere. And yet: )

Where no man knows your name.

( Where the Yiling Patriarch is not reviled, hunted. )

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( An exhalation, not quite amusement, not quite a sigh. )

Will they still not know us, at this journey's end?

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No more one than the other.

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Learn our names, then?

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As much one, as the other.

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Wangxian, ah?

( absolutely horrible, but exactly his sense of humour )

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...perhaps separately. With dignity.

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Wuji~

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Unloved, you would be loathed.