Eastbound Contact

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Wei Wuxian
missives | encounters

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Then it may be a threat.

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Oh?

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You may die freely, at the age you allow.

I may die beside you.

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Allowed if the inverse is likewise accepted.

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Declined.

Sixteen years later.

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Declined. Actions taken in ignorance are not the same as those taken in deliberate knowledge.

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The same consequences yet bind.

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Declined.

I would not seek immortality to become Baoshan Sanren.

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Wen Qing lives.

Shall we seek out your core? Shall we return it home?

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Did you remember the odds of it failing?

I've never backed away from a challenge to finding other solutions. My imagination hasn't started limiting itself now.

[downswing]

Then start your work.

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You wound me! Thinking I haven't.

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I could wound worse.

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You could, but why would you? I'm so much more handsome when I don't look disappointed!

1/2

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I love you.

You condemn me to grieve you aged, then dead once more.

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Have I wounded as you wound?

I may attempt again.

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( shock. )

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Lan Zhan...

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You're outright telling me you love me!

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Wei Wuxian.

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As an optimistic realist, I choose to focus on the important things. Not the loss that might be waiting. So no, I won't bargain, I won't agree. I would rather love you while you're here than worry over the future and some transaction of pettiness over who deserves what degree of pain.

Neither of us do. Neither of us did. Loving anyone is allowing that pain may come. It's knowing eventually it does, in small ways, or big. Fearing that is reasonable. I did. Blaming each other for it won't make it better, won't spare us, even if we wish.

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I cannot unmake the roots of my core.

All I beg is that you make attempt.

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Is that your condition for your affection?

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Would that it were.

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No. If it were, I'd have to be honourable, and leave.