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>> post murdergames, AU settings, redacted alternate loops, What Ifs, fractura au worlds, etc + canon visit prompts: xie lian | yin yu >> need a prompt? - tfln - intimate bathing - kiss meme - morning after | |
| — CALL ME OUT; | |
>> post murdergames, AU settings, redacted alternate loops, What Ifs, fractura au worlds, etc + canon visit prompts: xie lian | yin yu >> need a prompt? - tfln - intimate bathing - kiss meme - morning after | |
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ruoye settles beside it and nods. ] The Crown Prince of Xian Le. For protection. Any offering is accepted.
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anyway! shi qingxuan looks surprised, and then delighted, and she reaches back into her sleeve to pull out even more gold because, frankly, xie lian deserves as many nice things as possible, and she may not have many nice things to give him in the future. better to give them to him now.
once the offering has been placed on the altar, she closes her eyes, claps her hands together, and prays -
Hello, Your Highness! Thank you for your protection!
...though the follow up thought comes unbidden:
I'm really going to need it...]
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there's no immediate response, but it seems like the little creature is listening. his ears twitch, and he takes the little gold pieces from shi qingxuan, then starts to stack them up on the altar - when it finishes, it settles on the altar and watches her very keenly, little dark eyes focused. maybe he can hear those prayers? wild ]
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shi qingxuan's thoughts wander, as they tend to do (this is perhaps surprising to anyone who assumed she has no thoughts at all). to be entirely fair, she's spent centuries listening to and answering prayers; she hasn't spent much time praying to her colleagues. maybe she would if they all had cute little animal companions like this!
she realizes, ruoye stacks the last of the gold pieces up with a little clink, that she's gotten distracted, and resumes her prayer.
I hope that you are doing well and that your Hua Cheng is taking good care of you. Well, I suppose I don't have anything else to ask for, so that's it for now.
...aaand she's done! she returns her attention to ruoye and gives a polite bow.]
I suppose that's it. Offering made! Thank you for your assistance.
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... and a moment later, a familiar figure comes into the room! the whole being immortal thing means that xie lian looks the same as shi qingxuan would know him. he's dressed in white robes, though they're less scrappy than usual, made of a decent quality of silk, and has his usual white bandages wrapped around his neck and arms. the straw hat even hangs from his back, as usual, though his long hair is tied up in a ponytail at the top of his head. ]
... Excuse me, young lady. [ ....
how does he tell this cultivator woman that he's the god and he heard you say "your hua cheng" without saying so. ] Ah... um, you don't have to leave so quickly. Would you like to have a cup of tea? Please allow this daozhang to treat you in thanks for your offering to the Crown Prince.
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well! well. shi qingxuan seems amused when he speaks, because she recognizes him. he doesn't seem to recognize her, though? which actually gets her thinking - it's not like this is the first time she's encountered someone from her own world at a different time. and she'd thought that the city they were at the outskirts of had seemed a little familiar, but hadn't quite put it together until now.
on the one hand, it would probably be kinder to just admit she knows him. on the other, maybe it wouldn't be? maybe it would be crueler, actually, because it would be confusing.
...a cup of tea with xie lian sounds nice, even if it's not a xie lian who remembers her.]
Ahaha... I didn't make an offering to make you feel like you had to treat me to tea, you know! But I wouldn't mind the company, if you really wouldn't mind sharing a cup.
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he's just a newly created calamity, but to xie lian, he's just his soldier, his companion, his dearest san lang. so to hear someone refer to him as 'hua cheng' is entirely too curious, and xie lian is too clever to let it slip away.
...he's also just a nice person! so. xie lian bows his head. ]
I wouldn't mind at all. [ c:
and with that, he goes over to the stove to fetch the implements to make tea! he's still a completely horrible cook, but tea is easy to do for any version of xie lian, and the quality of the tea he has is a little finer than he would have had at this age otherwise. as he's prepping it, ruoye leads shi qingxuan over to a little floor table area, then scampers off to go fetch cups. ]
Does the young mistress have a name?
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perhaps not. it wouldn't be so surprising, after all - she'd ascended after his first and second ascensions, and he'd wandered the mortal realm while she was in her prime. it's not as if she's going to introduce herself as the lady windmaster. after all, she's under the impression she won't be the windmaster for much longer; she's wrapping up loose ends before addressing the problem with her ascension, and once that's addressed, it's sure to be all over for her.
it should be fine to use her name. she smiles, following ruoye over to the little floor table, and takes a seat easily.
it's comfortable here. but then, xie lian - when she'd known him - had always had a way of putting her at ease. what a guy!]
I'm Shi Qingxuan. [she smiles at him, idly fanning herself. it's a habit she's going to have to break once she doesn't have this fan to carry any longer.] And you are?