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Wei Wuxian
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[downswing]

And if he... does not recover?

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He will. With what time, or with what changes, remains to know.

Care for who he is. Even when your heart breaks. Let him heal. Bring him the small joys. I don't know if that'll matter to him the way it did to me, but... it seems like something my shijie would do.

You know him better than I do. If he's soothed by speaking, try. If in music, play. You have my dizi too. Remind him he's not alone. Not even in being betrayed, and not even in loss. Those rarely simply stop haunting us, though perhaps, gratitude to the ghost king who helped ensure his haunting here slackened in thirst.

[downswing]

I am impatient, wishing his hurt done.

[weifinder]

Yes. Yet you've been learning patience these past two years. You're steady, Lan Zhan. Aim that impatience elsewhere, ah?

[downswing]

...I cannot pledge.

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Why?

[downswing]

Because you and he and Sizhui are fragile, beautiful things.

And I tear those down.

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Lan Zhan. Your support is a good part of why I stand today. It's why Sizhui grew up. It's the unshakeable faith your brother has in you.

We are strong, beautiful things. You don't tear us down. You give us ground on which to build.

[downswing]

( A moment's silence, fully drawn. )

May I steal from you?

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( most times, he would tease here. going against the precepts, in any sense? a smile for the departure from endless layered rules that lack nuance or deeper consideration, with taken as absolute, and not as guidelines.

not now. now, without hesitation, he simply says: )

Yes.

[downswing]

May I have the rabbits for brother to enjoy an evening?

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Of course! Little Jaja and sibling are ready anytime.

[downswing]

They have names.

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Yeah, like Little Jaja!

[downswing]

...Wei Ying.

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... Little Yaya?

[downswing]

( The most patient: ) Van... ya.

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Right! Little Yaya!

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...is that whom you meant.

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It was, this whole time!

( ... what's the other one been named again, why are these slippery fish in his minds grasp )

[downswing]

And Vanya's sibling?

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Is equally welcome to soothe your brother!

[downswing]

As... trov.

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... Little Yaya and Little Trotro?

[downswing]

( The. Most. Patient. )

...will my beloved remember that?