Eastbound Contact

[weifinder]

Wei Wuxian
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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.

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...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. )

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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.

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( 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?

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


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?

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I shall kneel until forgiven.

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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?

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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?

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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. )

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More reward than reimbursement.

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If our rewards align, more luck to us, ah?

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You were upset prior. What shifted?

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You acknowledged it, I think. You cared enough to do so even without intending to change.

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You ask so little.

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Mm.

( he doesn't think that this is truly surprising to either of them, though... he prompts himself to add: )

Yet want so much.

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Did the chains bruise?

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What do you remember?

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Loosely bound.

But Wei Ying's skin unseen after.

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They heal, and without bruising. Benefits to having learned healing without the attitude that benefits those who doctor others, ah?