Eastbound Contact

[weifinder]

Wei Wuxian
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[downswing]

( His breath, catching: ) ...not the old fear.

( No. Simpler. ) It is only that I love you.

[weifinder]

Lan Zhan...

( the hint of a whine, and then: )

Is this where it hurts, knowing you want to spare those you love the harms of the world, while knowing at the same time, you can't? And shouldn't, without asking... I think I understand my sister better now than I ever did when I was still a younger man.

[downswing]

It would have been one of us.

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Why didn't you discuss?

( was it only the pressure of the miasma of that place? )

[downswing]

Be fair. What could have been spoken?

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"I wish to go, please."

[downswing]

( And yet, betrayal was asked. )

And what might you have said?

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( he was already bleeding on the door, wasn't he )

"Because the door says only one of us may, or for another reason?"

[downswing]

We have ever gone together.

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Yet sometimes to walk in step means to do so on parallel roads. Haven't we don't that, too, in this world?

( a pause, and a sigh. short, but a sigh none the less. )

I don't really like being chained, I don't think.

[downswing]

...I do not mind.

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... You'd like to be?

( slightly baffled, mostly curious, and that much is audible in his voice. )

[downswing]

I did not mind Wei Ying bound.


( Is this................ a joke. )

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...

( he snorts. )

I didn't mind seeing Lan Zhan kneel.

[downswing]

( The key to a successful marriage is not letting your partner know you are wedded.

Past that, he hears: compromise.

And so, camera sternly off, and only obliging his husband with sound —

He purposefully loudly brings one knee down with a shrill thud. Then, the next. )

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... What are you doing?

[downswing]

( ............ :) )


As bidden.

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( an exhalation into laughter: )

Seen, Lan Zhan, what's this, the promise heard of what's teased for later?

[downswing]

I shall kneel until forgiven.

[weifinder]

Stand up, dramatic fool!

( a little... fondly. )

I have never thought those kinds of punishments worked, why would I want anyone doing so for me?

[downswing]

Because it is your right.

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These aren't the rights I'm interested in, ah? Do you need me to accept this for you to accept that?

[downswing]

What, then, do you require?

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You, independent of all this, for a day and a night, just mine.

( more about the inability to avoid, then, for either one. )

[downswing]

More reward than reimbursement.