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Event Seventeen.
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I sat me down to look for it And brought it home because I couldn’t find it. | |
Welcome to Awash's seventeenth event log, everyone! Further information on this event can be found here at the OOC post. You are welcome to make your own logs and posts for this event! | |
he magical vines creep ever onward, slowly infringing upon the Town. No matter how many are chopped down, no matter how many are set on fire, they keep coming even so.
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[ The wheels in his mind turn....
... but get stuck and don't actually lead him to any conclusion. Apropos of nothing, why is this house so warm, there isn't even a fire going? Anyway, he's just going to casually reach for Shen Qingqiu's (elegant) arm and push back his sleeves and — ]
What's this?
[ There's a clear, red scratch on the back of the man's hand. ]
When did this happen?
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I saw that scratch earlier--it doesn't look deep, and I don't sense anything wrong spiritually...could it be something similar to those events from before?
[Something caused by the town itself...]
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No. I had ... cut it upon one of the vines. [ A weak smile. Really, you worry too much! ] I was attempting to dispel the vines with fire, but it ended up this way instead. [ All right! The bush is officially beaten the fuck around!! ]
A little while later I began to hallucinate and suffer from other ailments. [ His head moves just barely to look towards Wei Wuxian. ] I was a little ... worried about qi deviation caused by my poisoning...
[ Another reason to see the young cultivator beyond dealing with the frogitis. If he is in the starting stages of qi deviation, he needed to figure out where he could isolate himself and fast to settle his own flowing energy!! Sure, he was given an explanation that it was something happening in the town, but what if it wasn't?! ]
... but, if my meridians are clear...
[ He stops. Why is it so taxing to talk? I take back all the times I got upset when those on their sick beds in stories would pause so long!! I thought it was for drama, but it really, really sucks to talk! You feel just drained! I get it now! I apologize for all the times I complained!! ]
... it probably isn't be my poisoning.
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Absentmindedly, he strokes A-Qiu's forehead while he thinks aloud. ]
Those events from before... you mean with the costumes and the puppets. They were playing out stories with us. People here call them "fairy tales."
[ For that reason, he'd made a point of going to the library and reading every fairy tale he could find there, in hopes that it would make it easier for him to puzzle out the strange events in this village. ]
There's a story I remember.... something about a spindle and a bramble of thorns around a castle....
[ And a princess and.... ]
Ah! I know how to cure you!
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You... have to kiss him.
[ True love's kiss is what usually undoes a curse. And Shen Qingqiu is infatuated with Xie Lian, so.... this has to work. ]
Trust me, it's the only way.
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...I--are you sure?
[It's only natural that he balk at this, right? Wei Wuxian already took his first kiss, and now the man's suggesting he kiss this poor cultivation teacher? Kisses aren't that easily given! He's not that loose! But I mean if he has to but no that's still embarrassing does he have to can't someone else do it--he can't suggest that!?]
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In the end, he believes that he is their senior and so should have done more to protect them from having been in this sort of situation. I really caused a lot of trouble just because I didn't want to be chased around with medicine. ]
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ARE. YOU. FUCKING. KIDDING. ME?! ]
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Fucking show me a little bit of mercy here! I had to be carried! I can barely talk! I can barely fucking move! I had to hallucinate seeing -- why?! I understand, but why! You don't have to punish me so badly for being a little stubborn!! ]
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He doesn't have to... [ Come on!! We can find another solution to this!! I understand what you're thinking, but what?! Also ... what?! It's fine, it's fine. You don't have to! Look, I'm also saying that he doesn't have to, and we can find someone else??
Sure, they kiss each other to deal with their frogitis but he can see how Wei Wuxian wouldn't want to deal with this mess as well. It's like ... how often do I have to kiss this person? I get it. ]
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[ He bends down, and presses a kiss against Shen Qingqiu's lips, without the slightest hesitation, as if it's something he does every day. Two birds with one arrow, a potent demonstration as well as fulfilling their daily "frogitis" kiss—which isn't even a real thing that exists, how did he get himself into this anyway?
He feels once again, strongly, that he ought to come clean about that; but telling the truth now would probably cause so much bad blood to accumulate in A-Qiu's chest he might die on the spot in his weakened condition. ]
Now you try, dearest wife!
[ He's distracted and so he calls Xie Lian the nickname he always uses, oblivious to how this just makes things that much weirder. ]
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Y-y-y-y-you're--that--it's--
[why is this so hard he's flailing]
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He leans in and gives a really quick kiss!]
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[and then turns right around and runs off to hide in that room Wuxian had yelled at earlier.]
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He fumes just a little about being ignored and wanting to know why Xie Lian has to be the one in the first place!! It takes him a second to realize that he isn't upset about being kissed at all by Wei Wuxian. Well, that's been going on for a week. At this point, when you get used to... ]
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His emotions are bubbling over about every little thing. Another side-effect of his cutting his hand upon the thorns, but not one he can recognize. If he paused to think about it, isn't-- ]
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No, no! There's nothing to apologize for! Either of you!! You're both just trying to help me out of the blunder, but I'm actually really worried about -- NO! No! My pajamas!! He's going to see them! Now all of China will know about it!!
He isn't even sure which part he should be upset with first! Or last! Or third! So he can only look helplessly to Wei Wuxian. ]
Frogitis?
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"Frogitis"? Pfft!
[ A small chuckle escapes his lips before he has the presence of mind to clamp down on his laughter. What he wants to do is laugh until he's breathless, holding his sides and rolling on the floor. Frogitis, poor man. That's what he's worried about—a worry borne from kindness.
After he's managed to contain his mirth, he turns back to Shen Qingqiu and gazes at him fondly, once more stroking his forehead. ]
Don't worry. It's only transmitted by frog-to-human contact.
[ How can he lie so easily? It's a gift. He really will have to go back and apologize abjectly some day, with a jar or two of rice wine in hand. ]
Feeling any better?
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[ What a relief! I don't need that on my conscience!! He already feels like he's built up enough guilt to last him forever with how much he's obviously distressed the two of them.
He wishes he had enough strength to cover his face. Xie Lian isn't coming back! He's seen it. He's seen it too now. My life is over. Shen Qingqiu thinks that he could feel his soul depart his body, but it's an exaggeration! I take it back! I once more take it back. He really needs to stop using that as his go-to when he's suffering from embarrassment. Especially considering how often he is in life-threatening situations!
Wait, why exactly did he think this would work in the first place? But he presses his lips together into a thin line. I get it, I think? Kind of? His thoughts are really tiring him out with how much of a burst that they're going in.
Feeling better? Mm. No. So, I guess it wasn't that story of Sleeping Beauty, huh? It wasn't. Fucking shit. Why? ]
Mmn. No. [ Not even a little bit! What gives?! If it isn't that story, then what story is it?! What is it! Fucking tell me already!! ] I don't feel any better than before.
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Not at all?
[ He'd been kneeling beside the sofa, next to Shen Qingqiu, but now he changes position so he can look directly into the man's face. He still looks as bad as before. Why didn't that work, it should have worked! It worked in the Ice Castle, and it worked for the frog enchantment, so why not now? Was that... not a nice enough kiss?
His gaze flicks down to Shen Qinqqiu's soft lips. He could try kissing them again, maybe this time a little longer, maybe with his tongue he could...
His head dips down, closer... ]
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There's a version of the Sleeping Beauty story called "Sun, Moon, and Talia" in which the girl is injured with a splinter of flax and falls asleep, and then a passing King comes by, finds her asleep and kisses her, but she doesn't wake up. And then he...
[ ........what does he do?
Wei Wuxian clears his throat and looks away. ]
...and, er, later she bears twins.
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........Anyway so Xie Lian rejoins the group looking almost as calm as he'd been before, poking his head back in with a look of concern on his face, just in time to hear that last line! And is immediately struck with the thought that maybe, just maybe, he should've given himself a little more time to recover.
But he's already here, so--sorry for hesitating at the door.] ...Who does?
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