Eastbound Contact

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Wei Wuxian
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As... trov.

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... Little Yaya and Little Trotro?

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( The. Most. Patient. )

...will my beloved remember that?

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Much more likely, yes.

... Say that again?

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( Sighing, but still the most patient. )

Little. Tro. Tro. Astrov.

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No, no, the other part!

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Only when you exercise your memory.

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Lan Zhaaan!

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Wei Ying?

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Maybe a little more often...?

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...a little more, beloved.

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( it's not so much an utterance than the pleased sound in a smiling exhalation, fond beyond words in his simplicity. )

You make my heart sing!

( you wild thing )

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Not where Uncle may hear.

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Oh, he likes it better than he lets on! Probably.

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What... else unrecalled?

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............... Um?

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You struggle with the names of our rabbits. What else?

( A pause, then slowly: ) I may remind you.

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I have a feeling you'll be more aware than I am about what I don't remember, ah? They always said my memory was poor.

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I ask only to help.

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I know, I'm thankful. The things I truly forget, I forget. It's difficult to say what those things are.

( as he genuinely no longer knows them, in enough cases. and the things he's forgetting on purpose, he won't choose to revisit either. )

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I shall keep tally.

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And if there are things I ask you help forget?

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( A pause, then hesitantly: ) The cliff. The dogs.

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( he shudders, partly in theatrical reaction, entirely unseen. )

Keep them away from me, please?

( the dogs. the ones that move. )

I won't fall again, but dogs...

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Shield, against one and all.