the body shakes its head, and shudders. rubs a hand over its eyes again. as jingyi watches, hanguang-jun reaches over to pat the body's shoulder, consolingly. the body's threadbare robes shift; hanguang-jun's hand brushes against the skin of its shoulder. hanguang-jun freezes.
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"wei ying?" he says, in a voice like nothing jingyi has ever heard from him. "what?" jingyi hisses. sizhui shushes him: "i don't know either, just watch!" the body has frozen too. "lan zhan?" "wei ying?" hanguang-jun sounds frantic. he's blinking a lot; jingyi can see the
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shadow of his eyelashes as he does. "is it - are you - am i... wei ying!" hanguang-jun's hand falls, landing on top of the body's fingers. there's a long quiet. "they sure are staring at each other a lot," jingyi observes. "jingyi," sizhui hisses. "do you think they're okay?"
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"HEY, HANGUANG-JUN," jingyi yells. "ARE YOU OKAY?" "do not worry, jingyi," hanguang-jun calls. he's still not looking away from the body. "DO YOU WANT US TO SEND YOUR SWORD DOWN?" jingyi asks. "BLINK THREE TIMES IF YOU WANT BICHEN, HANGUANG-JUN, WE CAN THROW HER RIGHT ON DOWN."
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"do you think we should go down there?" he asks sizhui, when hanguang-jun doesn't respond. sizhui is staring down the hole, too. "let's give him the sword," he says, contemplatively. "and then i think maybe we should go.... somewhere else. i haven't seen that look on dad's face
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before but i've seen it on YOUR dad's face, and like... we probably shouldn't be here." "are you talking about...?" "cooties," sizhui says, in a horrified tone. "DAD, WE'RE SENDING BICHN DOWN! PLEASE USE IT TO FIGHT THE COOTIES!" "boys," hanguang-jun says, mildly.
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jingyi knows what happens when hanguang-jun sounds mild. stuff starts to go DOWN when hanguang-jun sounds mild. he absolutely eviscerated another cultivator who was totally in the wrong on an academic night-hunt two months ago while sounding PARTICULARLY mild throughout.
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"BYE HANGUANG-JUN SEND A MESSENGER BUTTERFLY IF YOU NEED US," he yells as sizhui sends bichen down & they make their escape to the little tumulus they'd started building all those hours ago. they don't go home, of course. they don't want to be too far from the hole, just in case.
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hanguang-jun finds them there a full shi later. he's astride bichen. the body is in his arms. "this is wei wuxian," he says, as they alight on the ground. "he'll be staying with us for a while." "mom says you should never bring random corpses home with you," jingyi says.
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"isn't there an entire lan clan rule about it?" "i think so," sizhui adds, but he smiles & bows at the body. "but i'm happy to have you as a guest, yiling laozu." "ahh a-yuan, you're so polite in this life too," the body says, as jingyi sniffs surreptitiously. it doesn't smell.
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