Eastbound Contact

[weifinder]

Wei Wuxian
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[downswing]

( Tip of his tongue, poison dripped. He knows this answer. )

We shall.

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Then we meet, and we begin.

[downswing]

...Wei Ying. Thank you.

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( he could say something about thanks being unnecessary, but it's not... it's not that. it's acceptance and it's statement, it's support and it's realising. it's facing what one doesn't know, and finding a way forward. )

We continue to know the men we are now, Lan Zhan. Side by side, we walk.

You have me.

( a fact he's come to believe has inherent worth again. )

Thank you for troubling me.

( thank you for letting him help. )

[downswing]

If he cannot be saved?

[weifinder]

Where I may not heal, I may resurrect. And where that does not heed, all meet death. It is the one great equaliser, in it's inequity.

[downswing]

Death of my hand.

[weifinder]

I'm going to put a fan and pestle in those hands with Wen Qing's help, Lord of Light. As you're feeling, most things aren't solved in the flash of brilliance off steel.

[downswing]

Do not raise him, if he perishes. It would wound him.

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Then he better not die.

[downswing]

Wei Ying.

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We get to work, Lan Zhan. Us and all our chaotic little group too.

[downswing]

Pledge you will not raise him without his say.

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If it prevents his use and twisting by our enemies, I make no promise.

If they are unrelated, then I do.

To the address following. While you gnaw guilt as a bone, which I deeply understand, he's been freed from confinement. Shake off. Step forward. Offer hands, and not a blade.

[downswing]

Apologies. I shall not come to you in weakness again.

[weifinder]

If you think so little of my comfort or advice, then correct. Don't. I'm not going to make you hear what I'm not expert in giving, I've never been able to sit and panic until after things are settled, and I cannot slow down.

I don't know how to be my sister in her kindness and understanding. I can only be myself, lacking or otherwise, and wallowing is nothing I've ever been good at allowing those I care about to do.

I care for you deeply. I'm telling you, the way is forward. Not in trapping yourself into guilt. I know that pitfall, far better than most.

See you or don't, Lan Zhan. I won't care for you any less.