[sidereal - the dreaming]

[laughitoff]

[for MDZS AU plot-related shenanigans]

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[he's had his own moments of fighting through pure panic in the past, though they did not feel quite like this. he tamps it down and swings Bichen flat-first around him to make the puppies back off, thinking hard about that time he chased the dog away from the tree Wei Wuxian was hiding under when they were children. his THREATENING AURA is turned up to max.]

Leave.

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[he can't really get them to leave the general area, but he can get them a good distance away, cowed and not making so much noise.]

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he puts up a physical ward around the tree. Lan Sect is very good at them, as evidenced by their wall.

only when that's done does he glare up into the tree instead; he doesn't think there's any chance of him not being noticed this time.]




Wei Ying.

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[there is a confused sniffle, as Wei Wuxian finally registers his presence]

Lan...Lan Zhan?

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...

[he gentles his voice a little, though there's no helping his blank face, as usual]

Do not be afraid.

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I'm not--!

[he is]

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[ignores that]

They will not come close.

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[whines, not unlike a puppy himself]

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[softer still]

Wei Ying.

[laughitoff]

They'll bite me. They'll come back and they'll run in and they'll bite me--!

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[very seriously]

I will not let them.

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[wobbly]

You won't--you won't be here forever.

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I'll stay.

[laughitoff]

You never did before...

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[I tried, he might say, or you sent me away, or I did, but you do not remember. all contemptible answers. he left; he failed; he will not make excuses about it, neither to Wei Ying nor himself.]

...

I was wrong.

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[hat gets Wei Wuxian to turn his head and stare down at him incredulously, the branches he's hanging onto creaking dangerously with his shift in weight]

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[looks up at him calmly, frowning a little; he doesn't like the look of those branches]

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[they're way too thin to reasonably hold him for long.]

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Wei Ying.

It is not safe.

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S-safer than down there!

[a soft crack immediately belies that]

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Wei Ying.

[his voice has gone sharper with worry.]

[laughitoff]

[he scrambles to hang onto a different unbroken branch]

What?!

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[smooths his voice out again]

...

At least come closer.

[laughitoff]

In case you haven't noticed, this is a little difficult!

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The lower branches are stronger.