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Wei Wuxian
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un: absterge

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Bare your leg willing.


( Show your curse, sir. )

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You know, husband, this comes with a very telling feeling of "or else."

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Wei Ying.

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The indifferent wrath of a man who believed he was owed more prestige in position than he was granted, who ensured his discontent was torment to those he was meant to protect.

You?

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( Destined to atone for a... Wen. )

Irrelevant.

You suffer his harm?

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I'm mostly suffering in the memory of that horrid stuff we drank, there's nothing worthwhile to have chased after it with. Water is water, I'm thankful, but a good wine? What I would give for a good wine...

His harm at present is not a sufferance, and I don't intend to sit here wondering at him for longer than I have. We atone for these things that aren't ours, as if they were granted to us by our own ancestors, yes? It'd be difficult having to emulate his injustice. Doing otherwise is simple.

Anyway, more importantly, it's not irrelevant, so tell me please.

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You ever atone for foreign sins.

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A merry widow murderess.

At ease. No affinities shared.


( Cue husband murder spree. )

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I must have atoned for some of mine along the way.

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Husband, dearest, most handsome, most swift with his blade: you were not a merry widow, nor I an informed husband, and it was not your hand that sought to go.

Which is to say, who're we helping marry in this town of criminals, ah?

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Lovers true.

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Husband.



( He is trying. )

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( there is something small and wildly pleased in reading that word, some cemented sense of bonds that can be, are, seen as tangible things, and he plucks at it, that word, in his mind. he thinks he'd like to hear lan zhan say it, soon. )

Have you encountered any so far, or should I be applying myself to locating true lovers among our, ah, colourful community?

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Do you not bear enough burdens, that mine must call to you?

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Do we stand at each other's side, Lan Zhan.

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Often, one stands behind the sleeve of another.

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Your sleeves are very impressively large, and I could be climbing you like a tree whenever the dogs exist, but I have not, ah?

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Made attempt.

Wei Ying. Quiet your heart.

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There are too many dogs here, Lan Zhan, the least quiet part of me will be my heart until we're gone from this region.

So, finding the true lovers to marry, ah?

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Or an exercise in conjugal respect.

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Do elucidate!

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Perhaps, more facile to reunite an estranged pair than to construct fresh marriage.

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No reason not to try, but it comes down to the same point: listening to what the locals have to say.

Possibly visiting with the elders. They might be likely, too.

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I am no matchmaker.

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Of the navy qualities you're imbued with, that is not one, no, but you have all those people coming to speak, yes? Have none of them hinted at missed connections?