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Wei Wuxian
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'Hunting.'

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A man likes to eat!

( a pause, belated realisation, then awkward laughter: )

Or so they say, ah? It's not, you know it's not, nothing bad, right? Right!

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You come too thin.

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And you're thick enough, ah?

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Thick enough dogs cannot peer through me.

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( IF ONLY DOGS WOULD IN FACT IGNORE HIM HE'D LOVE IT, THANKS HUSBAND )

So you're for going on all fours?

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I am for seeing you strong, before.

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Lan Zhan.

( a pause. )

You have a tendency to presume certain lacks of strength of the body, where I run... not fortunately lean, but not weak.

( ... )

... Unless you're teasing me, you're so sly with that tongue of yours anymore!

[downswing]

You seek to tell me you are not delicate.

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( some wiser men might temporise... but he is not those men. blithely: )

Not a day in my life, except when bedbound!

[downswing]

Wei Ying's cavernous palace disagreed with him.

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Be kind, no one enjoys a diet if mostly turnips and radishes in broth. Lan Zhan, even on your mountain, there were more vegetables in your broth!

( and some salt or innocuous herbs, but still. )

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...was it thin broth that lessened your flesh?

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We fed him first.

1/3

[downswing]

( Ah, but what a troubled thing, a heart shared with a child is. )

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I had wondered, if he would not rise well. For want of feeding, young.

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But he did.

Thank you.

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On behalf of the Defan Mountain Wens, thank you and the Gusu Lan clan for seeing that he thrived.

[downswing]

Shameless Wei Ying learns shame.

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For my affections for others, Wei Ying willingly learns many things.

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...Wei Ying. You were not blessed to raise a son. ( Opportunity deftly stolen. ) You will regret the absence of a wife.

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How are you at making soup?

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...I may learn.

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How then can I regret my wife?

( he's claimed his spouse. whatever way they call each other, he's not a man to love mourning the undone past.

he is not his husband-wife, but he can understand, to degrees. )

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( And they say the Yiling Patriarch knows no kindness. )

Come dine within two shi. I shall ready your bowl.


( ...with broth of salted water and kraken flesh, if he must. )