Eastbound Contact

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Wei Wuxian
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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?

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

Wei Ying. The man Wen Kexing.

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Hmm? What of him?

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His soulmate is of sickness.

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Do you know of what kind?

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Incurable.

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

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The triad.

Wen Kexing asked the way of your rebirth.

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( 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. )

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I discouraged. He insulted.

He will come to you. Inevitably.

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I'll speak with him first, perhaps.

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...perhaps.

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Perhaps even today. Since my night's free.

( dryly. )

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Allow me first to finish penitence.

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Am I to listen to you kneel?

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Unnecessary. Sleep.

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I'll find Wen Kexing. Good kneeling, may you find many ants to observe.

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Fetch fresh parchment with morning.


( .........burning the nest. )

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( he just laughs, because: now he's had warning. any papers he cares about can be shoved in a satchel and carried off.

such kindness! such largesse! )

Your loss.

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I do this not for you, but for my soul.

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I know. Just as for mine, only when I pay respects to the departed does it mean a thing.

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Then why castigate me?




( This just in, Wen Kexing: national punishment. )

[weifinder]

... By choosing to speak with a man who has an ill to likely dying soulmate?