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[strikingchords]

[repeating himself, soft but firm]

You are not trouble.

[laughitoff]

I am, a little. It's fine, Lan Zhan, I don't need reassuring.

[strikingchords]

...

[thinks about that one for a little while...]

I am not trying to reassure. There is no reason. You are not troubling me.

...

Sometimes, questions are hard to answer. That is my discourtesy, not yours. Ask what you like.

[laughitoff]

[gives him a puzzled stare instead, like he's trying to pick that apart even though the statements are straightforward]

[strikingchords]

[looks back at him, painfully earnest]

[laughitoff]

[...quietly, half to himself]

I don't think I'm ready to.

[strikingchords]

...

[nods. softly:]

In your own time.

[...

squeezes his hand a little and returns to his book, for the moment]

[laughitoff]

[after a little bit of brooding on that, he must REALLY decide he doesn't want to work, because he kind of tilts his face up towards the ceiling and yells at it wordlessly, sudden]

[strikingchords]

[well

as per the library rules against noise, he poofs into a tiny fox now,]

[laughitoff]

[yeah there we go

wriggles under the blanket. hsi tiny paw is still in Lan Wangji's hand]

[strikingchords]

[he considers, then tugs the whole pile closer and rearranges things so Wei Wuxian can curl up against the side of his leg with the duvet AND the blanket on top of him fully (and his paw still in Lan Wangji's hand, obviously)

nods to himself when this pleasing and extremely warm stack has been completed and returns serenely to reading]

[laughitoff]

[sighs softly, his tails thumping, and doesn’t move from there]

[strikingchords]

[how many tails...?

I just tested with my dog whether or not you can hold a tiny paw and scritch at the same time. with a bent knee the answer is absolutely yes, so after about half an hour that's happening too]

[laughitoff]

[he lolls happily, much like your dog

he had nine tails when they accidentally transformed each other and he has nine tails now! it looks like they just all automatically show up when he’s fully in the monster’s shape for some reason]

[strikingchords]

[interesting.

when he knows from his own experience that Wei Wuxian only has ten minutes or so left, he pauses in his scritch...

very, very soft:]

Wei Ying.

[laughitoff]

[tiny whiny?]

[strikingchords]

[still soft, soft]

Do you wish to give your kisses now?

[laughitoff]

...

[noses his tiny face out from under the blanket to gaze soulfully at him '^']

[strikingchords]

[he's committing yet another crime to go on the books as "Lan Wangji is painfully sincere and serious in the direction of tiny animals"]

Your choice. Should you be more comfortable.

[laughitoff]

[a dumb little nod]

[strikingchords]

[nods back, looking down at him]

Do you wish me to lift you up?

[laughitoff]

[another dumb little nod; that'll be easier

it does mean lan wangji kind of determines where he gets fox kisses though]

[strikingchords]

[with equal solemnity, picks him up so he dangles dumbly in front of his face, exactly like this

he can do what he wants! there's a lot of fox kiss spots on the face!]

[laughitoff]

[oh no! he has to wriggle shyly in his hands first!]

[strikingchords]

[...

closes his eyes]