Eastbound Contact

[weifinder]

Wei Wuxian
missives | encounters

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[weifinder]

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?

[weifinder]

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.

[weifinder]

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

[downswing]

You were upset prior. What shifted?

[weifinder]

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

[downswing]

You ask so little.

[weifinder]

Mm.

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

Yet want so much.

[downswing]

Did the chains bruise?

[weifinder]

What do you remember?

[downswing]

Loosely bound.

But Wei Ying's skin unseen after.

[weifinder]

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

[downswing]

...ah. ( But a sound, overall, approving. )

Wei Ying. The man Wen Kexing.

[weifinder]

Hmm? What of him?

[downswing]

His soulmate is of sickness.

[weifinder]

Do you know of what kind?

[downswing]

Incurable.

[weifinder]

... In what manner? His body betrays? Long term poisoning? A curse?

[downswing]

The triad.

Wen Kexing asked the way of your rebirth.

[weifinder]

( a low, humourless sort of huffing exhalation. )

Chance. Nothing deliberate by me, everything desperate by the youth who took my place. That's no solution, and was theory before it proved true, and I was cursed in the process.

( a summoning, an exchange, for a price in blood. )

That won't solve his soulmate's issue. Still, other things might slow the decline. If the body has enough will left to live.

( he doesn't say: if not, he can resurrect. it's not what he's tried to learn but for the necessity of their remaining beyond matthias' machinations. )

[downswing]

I discouraged. He insulted.

He will come to you. Inevitably.

[weifinder]

I'll speak with him first, perhaps.

[downswing]

...perhaps.

[weifinder]

Perhaps even today. Since my night's free.

( dryly. )