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

... You and I?

( the question really: alone? )

( 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. )

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

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

No more one than the other.

Learn our names, then?

As much one, as the other.

Wangxian, ah?

( absolutely horrible, but exactly his sense of humour )

...perhaps separately. With dignity.

Wuji~

Unloved, you would be loathed.

Is that meant to be surprising?

...stay with me, wretched thing.

Always.

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

She is too delicate for two.

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

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

( ...ah. )

Thank you.

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. )

...shameless.

( an exhalation of a laugh. )

Who has time for shame?

Some, born without it.

A freer man, that's what I think. Those motivated only to avoid shame create other kinds of the same.

Do they?

Don't they?

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