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Re: Day 6

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Imbibitor Lunae: yuan'er you are a weapon you can never be unarmed do you remember you strangled me with your bare hands on extalla-884
Imbibitor Lunae: i loved it. i love you
Imbibitor Lunae:
Imbibitor Lunae: i need a moment

Re: Day 6

[lionsleeps]

[sir]

Jing Yuan: take one
Jing Yuan: I'll be around when you can think straight
Jing Yuan: [two photos of fat squirrels, just to push his actual name and messages off the screen]

Re: Day 6

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[45 mins later]

Imbibitor Lunae: they are very round
Imbibitor Lunae: is that normal?

Re: Day 6

[lionsleeps]

Jing Yuan: on planets with a winter, animals put on weight in the autumn to protect them from the chill
Jing Yuan: how are you feeling?

Re: Day 6

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Imbibitor Lunae: bad
Imbibitor Lunae: i want to see you but i cannot

Re: Day 6

[lionsleeps]

Jing Yuan: couldn't handle it right now? 😿

Re: Day 6

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Imbibitor Lunae: no i physically cannot leave
Imbibitor Lunae: call me?

Re: Day 6

[lionsleeps]

[...dan feng what

CALLS HIM???]

Re: Day 6

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[it rings for about a minute before he answers. he sounds hoarse and dehydrated, like how a sponge would sound, if it wasn't a sponge.]

General?

Re: Day 6

[lionsleeps]

Yes. What's going on with you?

Re: Day 6

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Nothing, I am fine.

[source: trust me bro]

I am just incapa- indisposed at the moment.

Re: Day 6

[lionsleeps]

Do not lie to me, Dan Feng.

Re: Day 6

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What does it matter? I am not beholden to you.

Re: Day 6

[lionsleeps]

You sound horrible and I am worried about you.

Re: Day 6

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Bleeding heart.

[he snaps it like the insult it is. there's a silence where he wants to say so many things like i've been in so much pain i threw up earlier because someone ate my tail or i'm hungry but i just ate and i think it's the other mouth do you have another mouth too or is it just a gluttony thing or yingxing isn't answering his phone. he hasn't changed one bit how many times did we have to drag him out of the forge or i just want to see you all the time but he doesn't say any of these because he doesn't know how to deal with a jing yuan whose concern did not have the edge of bereaved, tortured misery.]

No, I think I just caught something, honestly. Contagious.

Re: Day 6

[lionsleeps]

[He knows that was an insult, but it's not something he thinks should be an insult. He's proud of maintaining his ability to care after all these painful centuries. But... But he doesn't want to make it a point to argue about, so he doesn't defend himself on that point.

There's the sound of leaves crunching in the background, as Jing Yuan starts to angrily stomp his way back through the trees towards the cabins.]

I could ask your teammates.

Re: Day 6

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Do you think they care? After I just killed the lot of them? Come now. Use your cute little Arbiter-General intellect.

[wait where's he going WAI]

Where are you going now?

Re: Day 6

[lionsleeps]

Where do you think?

[brace yourself you horrid creature]

Re: Day 6

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I never said I was at the cabins!

[shit wait now he just did.]

I am fine, General, go back to your stroll.

Re: Day 6

[lionsleeps]

[Yknow what

HANGS UP ON HIM




he's coming over though]

Re: Day 6

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[there's several attempted calls, before dan feng scrambles out of the scant nest of blankets and pillows and clothing he'd made in his room.

his balance issues have vanished in the morning, but the tightly bandaged tail he'd manifested for aphelios still could not be dissipated- he'd probably need to solve the hunger thing but he's been busy with soaking in jing yuan's attention to care.

he remembers, extremely belatedly, stumbling to lock the front door, that since his usual clothing was out drying from all the blood, and he refuses to wear whatever absurd excuses for clothing that were left to him by shadowpeaks- he is wearing the robes of his long-former office, a prize from the very first game here he'd died in.

his hair is unbound, his earrings nowhere in sight. the bandages are streaked with the rust brown of dried blood. he looks like he hasn't slept in ten thousand years. he absolutely cannot let jing yuan see him like this.]

Re: Day 6

[lionsleeps]

[Jing Yuan is a polite boy so he DOES knock. But it's a very sharp knock. If no one answers he's going to take other measures.]

Re: Day 6

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[muffled, with the sound of the lock turning:]

Leave!

Re: Day 6

[lionsleeps]

No. Stop being childish and open the door now.

[He's using his most Authoritative Military Leader tone here.]

Re: Day 6

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[that startles dan feng: he's never heard jing yuan use that tone on him before.]

I-

[if he draws the attention of the rest of the house, he knows himself too well- the chance that he would escalate would rise exponentially.

the lock tumbles loudly and the door cracks open. dan feng stays out of sight, hiding behind the door like a hatchling.]

As you can see- hear- I am fine, General.