pc with waltaquin

[diabolizes]

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week 4, wednesday

[diabolizes]

[ Here he is, in Kakapo cabana. There aren't a whole lot of moments when he's alone with Waltaquin, but this just happens to be one of them.

Wei Wuxian peeks over at her from his spot in Psyche's bed. ]

Thank you for allowing me to stay in here.

[necrotiem]

Why not? We have the room. I can't say I've ever been trusted to be a nanny before, though.

[Waltaquin is messing with the cabana lava lamp, looking for the "peaceful convalescence" color...maybe. She ends up picking yellow.

He may be on bed rest, but it seems much easier for him to communicate. She wouldn't feel guilty holding a conversation with him anyway, but now she doesn't have a reason to, either. Hooray!]

This'll put a damper on our plans to get into some trouble, I reckon.

[diabolizes]

Unfortunately, I have to agree. I can help coordinate the troublemaking, at least. Consider me the mastermind behind it all.

[ He grins, basking in that yellow light from the lava lamp. It's nice and cheery. ]

[necrotiem]

Oh, am I taking orders from you now? That might be a hard pill to swallow. I'll need a great deal of convincing.

[She sits down on her own bed. Typically, she would be happy to continue the lighthearted conversation. Unbothered, teasing, devil's advocate. She kicks her leg a little, like she intends to.]

I don't care for this, Wei Wuxian. I have about had it with being a dog on a lead.

[diabolizes]

[ Honestly, he can't blame her. He doesn't do well taking orders either, but maybe that's a necromancer thing.

Sitting back against his pillows, he gazes over at Walaquin. ]

Our new arrangement, or being subjected to the sacrifices?

[ He's pretty sure she means the latter here, though. ]

[necrotiem]

Hah. [She isn't thrilled with either, to be honest!

But one, of course, is far more serious than the other.]

Taking part in this game of attrition is going to drive me mad much faster than my hexes will. Doesn't it bother you, to have felt brought within barely a league's distance of what you were previously capable of, for it to end like this?

[diabolizes]

Well… I hate being told what to do more than anything.

[ Something it seems they have in common! ]

So, yes. I’m frustrated. I have a lot of things I need to do back home, and instead I’m hoping that I or someone I care for doesn’t die.

[ It isn’t great. ]

[necrotiem]

That makes two of us. [He's probably been able to figure that out already, as well. They may be alike in more than just their tendency to tell unpleasant jokes at inappropriate times.]

In the end, I don't really care about what happens to the world back home. So that's one advantage I've got on you, at least.

[The second part notably doesn't get a comment.]

[diabolizes]

[ Ah… the way she skips over that other part of his statement has him thinking back to when she defended Sonya at the first trial. Hm.

At least he has enough tact to not bring it up. ]

It is. [ He smiles a little. ] I’d consider leaving my world for good if I didn’t have people under my watch.

[ But he's very much tied to his duty and the people he loves. ]

week 5, post-dragon

[necrotiem]

:/ [This is her first emoticon. Did she use it right?]

Are you caught up, I take it?

Hah, no, the better question...are you troubled?

[diabolizes]

of course i am. wang lu is injured

[ He… hasn’t told him. Oops. ]

[necrotiem]

[...Still? That gives her a little pause, though she'll try and play it as typing a longer message with her ye old gloved fingers.]

Never you worry; he'll get better.

That's twice now we've seen something like this, and with not much time between them.

[diabolizes]

he better

with the lab creature? it is strange that there are multiple here

[necrotiem]

[I think the post-dragon thread on the comm proper jerked the trajectory of this a little bit but I believe in our power to wiggle it around.]

Hm... I'm not so sure.

That laboratory looks nothing like the one that was described to us, and the old one is sealed.

Not that I'm not certain they have others elsewhere.

[diabolizes]

[ they can be stupid at each other instead ]

there have to have others
what's the point of just two laboratories?

[ he says like he even knows what they are ]

[necrotiem]

Well, it never hurts to have one at home and one for away...and one you can take with you wherever you go.

Though the limitations on the latter are confined to what you can carry, lol!

With the sort of research we've been seeing... I've no doubt they need a bigger stage.

[diabolizes]

creating monsters and all that does require a lot of materials, i suppose

honestly i don't know how any of this works. i build all of my inventions in a cave and need no other materials

but perhaps they even have one on the go as you suggest. they could have huge bags lmao

week 5, post trial

[diabolizes]

[ He could tell Waltaquin was kind of sort of losing it during trial, so he knows that he needs to check in on her. Which is why she'll receive a short and sweet text: ]

where are you

[necrotiem]

I went to the beach

Aren't I quite far down on your list of people to look out for?

[diabolizes]

why would you be? i like you plenty

[ And he's heading over to the beach as he sends that, keeping an eye out for her. ]

[necrotiem]

lol you flatter me

[She's not anywhere near the bonfire afterparty right now, nor on her way toward the caves where they keep the condemned, but Waltaquin is indeed on the beach, watching the warp as it sings and mutates.]

[diabolizes]

[ Ah, there she is. Wei Wuxian reads her text and shakes his head, sighing as he walks up to her. ]

Is it flattery if I actually mean it?

[necrotiem]

Hee hee, of course it is.

[She laces her knuckles together.] It was dizzying, wasn't it? I'm still practically out of breath...

[diabolizes]

[ Wei Wuxian is, unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), incredibly blunt when he wants to be. ]

Because you were close to being named culprit?

[necrotiem]

[Rubbing at the side of her head, she laughs again, this one more of a breath.]

That's certainly part of it. I already said it, though, didn't I - It's not as if I was surprised to be set upon. Blood is the only language here.