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[laughitoff]

Um.

It's fine.

I made you a...

[glances to the side, and realizes that in his terrified leap to the gravestone he knocked the milkshake out of his skeleton buddy's hands]

...never mind! Haha.

[strikingchords]

[IMMEDIATELY, TOO FAST]

I want it.

[...

backtracks, because it registers suddenly that Wei Wuxian already did so]

Unless.

[maybe they can stare at each other more]

[laughitoff]

[yeah that tracks. all he can see of Wei Wuxian's face is stupid fox ears and wide eyes and the messy fluff of his hair]

I think I just broke this one. So. Maybe later.

[strikingchords]

[nods mutely, still mostly frozen and breathless, dirt on his stupid bedsheet robes and earth and blood and charcoal on the claws... no, fingers, of both hands]

[laughitoff]

...

Sorry.

[ducks further down behind the gravestone again]

[strikingchords]

[he can't see Lan Wangji's face now.]

What?

[laughitoff]

I apologize?

[strikingchords]

[IT'S A GOOD THING THAT READING LAN WANGJI'S TONE ALONE IS A SKILL YOU ARE VERY GOOD AT]

For what?

[laughitoff]

Messing up giving presents and generally being mean?

[the high note of almost-panic has not really left his voice]

[strikingchords]

You. You did not.

...

I failed to accept it properly.

[NO CHANGE IN TONE BUT HIS VOICE SOUNDS KIND OF AIRLESS AND THE REPEATING THE "YOU" WAS WEIRD]

[laughitoff]

[THERE'S ANOTHER VERY LONG SILENCE. the very tips of Wei Wuxian's fox ears start showing over the top of the gravestone again]

...

Do you dislike me?

[strikingchords]

...


[EVEN WEIRDER AND MORE AIRLESS AND QUIETER]

No.

[laughitoff]

[they come up a tiny bit higher.]

Do you think I dislike you?

[strikingchords]

...

[very low]

Were I less unfit for liking.

You would not need to ask.

[laughitoff]

[they disappear again]

...

[strikingchords]

[he hears like, one rough breath on the other side of the headstone, then silence again.]

[laughitoff]

[miserably]

That's not true.

[strikingchords]

[after a while, still very soft, another breath...]

No?

[laughitoff]

No.

[strikingchords]

[he did just tell Jiang Yanli earlier that if Wei Wuxian tells him something he needs to trust him at his word. he doesn't want to imply he doesn't believe him. so, instead,]

I do not understand.

[laughitoff]

I have been--very unkind.

[strikingchords]

[steady]

You have had cause.

[laughitoff]

Not as much as I've been making out. Not from you.

[strikingchords]

[he hears a sigh on the other side of the headstone]

[laughitoff]

...

You're not...unfit. I just don't know how to treat you if you're not an enemy, after all. That's not your fault.