Eastbound Contact

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Wei Wuxian
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We can even take in another son, if you've the heart for it. Just so you know.

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Brother wishes a niece.

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I see, I see.

Think he'll one day take our requests, too?

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Spare kindness.

He lacks a soulmate.

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With a heart large enough to one day find happiness, ah?

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Not all men are so blessed.

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I didn't imagine I would be.

Still, there's deep affection in the world, whatever difference between where souls meet. May he find one who treasures that for its own sake.

( unlike... certain... other bonded brothers of his recent past. )

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Guanyin cannot be so fickle, to ignore him.

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The gods expect we learn mercy for ourselves, ah? When he's ready.

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Wei Ying. Should his day not come?

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It should. But he needs to be open to it too, ah?

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...I shall speak to him.

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I'll be here if you wish to speak on it later.

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He is no easier to approach on this than you are.

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Than what better person to try than you, who seeks firmly for those he cares about?

Family isn't about being easy. Sometimes the things we ask or are asked are the most painful, but if family doesn't ask, who will?

( do not, however, ask him how that's gone with his own brother. )

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The Heavens.

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Stay quiet.

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They stand so kind?

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So disinterested in the small details of the lives below. We walk our paths.

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Do not break from the Heavens.

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Haven't tried to yet, just haven't bowed before other's understandings of what the Heavens aren't brutal enough to encompass.

What I mean is, whatever days are, they are. What we decide matters more than what the Heavens alone decree, ah? None of us are immortals ascending, and even if we were, those are the ones who go against the Heavens to rise.

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Is it not for the Yiling Patriarch to seek immortality?

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Do you think I'll ever truly retire from the world?

Longevity, yes. Immortality?

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So desirous to cull ambition?

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So desirous of the world.