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lan wangji
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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.

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Is that meant to be surprising?

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...stay with me, wretched thing.

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Always.

And make sure to come on time, I'm stealing us both away on Lethe's graces.

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She is too delicate for two.


( Decides the man who has never reared a dragon. )

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Lan Zhan. Please. If I wanted excuses, there are other people I'd ask.

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( ...ah. )

Thank you.

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Love you.

( which, warm and stated for once slow and bold, like he's slipping into those words, is enough in acceptance. or... he believes, for now, maybe it is. )

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...shameless.

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( an exhalation of a laugh. )

Who has time for shame?

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Some, born without it.