Eastbound Contact

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Wei Wuxian
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If flowers be too precious for picking, which of us doesn't feel that pain without end? We can only choose to never step outside the gate without our double sash, our tied heart knots.

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...flatterer.

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Am I?

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I pray.

And that you remain safe. Alongside Sizhui and Wen Qing.

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While I add more names to that list, I hope for your safety, as well. Within the ranks — how holds order?

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No order. No hope.

They have restrained Messalina's people.

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What would you see changed?

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It would have been simpler to begrudge the undead, had she acted with open malice.

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Mm. There's many things easier to do when you can convince yourself there's an easier path to feeling righteous, versus being so.

As we know. Don't forget Anurr's legacy.

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She is imprisoned without open fault.

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Allowed to leave with the forces she arrived with may be justice enough. For whatever follows, so it will be. They're hardly prepared here for a true war, against her or Matthias.

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Do we unleash her?

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We did with Anurr. What estimate do you have of her interests being one to let the new dead rest?

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...something in me opposes trust.

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Insight gained with experience and wisdom.

I don't seek to punish any for potential. Yet the dead cannot have the same priorities as the living. We both know that.

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Then, we abandon her?

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I don't know if either way is more right. Yet not having her be taken by Matthias is one reason for, on top of her... mostly restrained actions. Her subordinates may be less subdued.

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One consumes hearts, readily.

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Does she truly have control over her creatures, or does she only believe it to be so?

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I believe her control absolute. Her interest...

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Less than so.

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Perhaps I err in questioning.

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One must always question. When we do not is when we fail.

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When we accept teachings without question.

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Mm. Blind acceptance is not the same as understanding what is taught, and why, and how that teaching interacts with the world that doesn't follow simple lines.