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un: qishan

[silverneedles]

[ sometime shortly after their return to the ship ]

Zewu-jun Your health is satisfactory?

[calmness]

Lady Wen. It is. My injuries have healed.

How are you fairing?

[silverneedles]

I did not sustain any injuries during our mission, nor encounter the curse. My health is fine.

[calmness]

I am glad to hear it.

Are you adjusting to this... vessel?

[silverneedles]

It is better than where I was before my arrival. The streets are kind to no one.

[calmness]

Ah, I apologize.

I had not been aware of when you'd been pulled from. [though, neither the place before or after had been kind either.]

It is strange but not the worst of places to consider a new home.

[silverneedles]

I was unaware anyone was from a time beyond my own, although age will tell.
It is unusual but safer than many places I have encountered.

[calmness]

[her very presence is what gave it away for him. that's difficult to broach.]

For those with strong enough cultivation it may be difficult to tell, even with the passage of time.

Than I am glad you are safer now.

[silverneedles]

And you were the foremost cultivator of our generation.

[calmness]

So perhaps older than I look.

[silverneedles]

How old are you, Zewu-jun?

[calmness]

Forty.

[silverneedles]

Much older than when I knew you.

[calmness]

By your recollection, when did we last interact?

[silverneedles]

Cloud Recesses, as you were not involved in the Wen indoctrination. I was aware of your actions during the war, however.

[calmness]

[that feels like a lifetime ago and suddenly he feels even older than he is.]

Nearly two decades ago, then, for my perspective.

I learned of your actions as well. That you took a great risk to help the Jiangs during the war.

[silverneedles]

What actions?

[ how did he learn? what is it he knows? no one was supposed to know. even about helping the jiang's after the fall of lotus pier, the risk they took— even though the war was over, that shouldn't be announced.

and the other thing— she isn't going to think about that. ]

[flauntist]

Zewu-jun, thank you for your help before, with the guard. It was and still is much appreciated.

[calmness]

No need to thank me, Master Wei.

It was the only way to ensure Wangji's safety.

[calmness]

Not reporting them was a great risk, was it not?

[flauntist]

Of course, of course. And we did! Safely.

I am glad Lan Wangji has you to watch out for him.

[silverneedles]

[ Okay, that thing. Not the other. What a relief. ]

It was Wen Ning who pleaded to assist them.

[calmness]

Is that so?

I will always do so, Master Wei. My brother is very important to me.

Thank you for also watching over him.

[calmness]

Then I will have to thank him as well when if I return home.

[silverneedles]

He deserves more than your thanks.