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Wei Wuxian
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un: absterge | in wake of hell

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( Excuse this unworthy soulmate, most notably absent since his return from hell — healthy, hale, but reduced, after encountering the vision of his mother, amid ruins. )

Apologies. I shall hold watch nights until the convoys flee fully, peace assured.

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From what vantage?

( and with what knowledge he wants of his husband, so less certain of his tides the time past? )

[downswing]

All lower grounds must be walked.

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I'll join.

[downswing]

Gratitude. We may divide to cover territory.

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Yes. I'll look left and up, and you'll look right and down.

[downswing]

Take the Wards.

I shall walk the Keep.

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Lan Zhan.

I'm coming.

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My arrangement is strategic, efficient, timely.

Your own?

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We are not the only people who stand capable of such watches. I have faith.

My arrangement places priority on one whom stands with me. On you.

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Do as he asks.

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Then speak with me. What drives you with this?

( what happened in Hell, where his own tale is screams and tumbles, little of grace until the end. )

[downswing]

Restlessness. Fresh battle.

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Two years, near unending. The depths were not kind. I recall very little of them. They've painted you dark, Lan Zhan, will you tell me how?

[downswing]

Wei Ying. Only restlessness.

You expended energy. Rest.

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You know me well enough to know I won't do that, much to everyone's laments.

[downswing]

I ask.

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Lan Zhan... will you tell me truly, when you decide your watch of the Keep ends? After I've walked the Wards.

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Lying is forbidden.

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Is sharing your heart's burdens forbidden too?

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Shall I regret giving notice? Flee without word, next?

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If you wish to be chased. I don't find it's a worthwhile life to give yourself, running away from those who care, without a word.

( having lived that way, trying to protect others instead of protecting himself. )

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You are not a youth once more, oblivious to boundaries.

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Likewise not oblivious to the reality of how you don't speak.

I'm here, Lan Zhan. I'm not your brother, I know, but please. Find me when you can speak of what weighs down your heart.

[downswing]

( It aches him enough that he staggers, delays. Lets it consume him, before he rescues the words: )

Be well.