text.

[secondjade]

[ It has taken Lan Wangji a while to figure out how to use his communicator, and he only really started the attempt once he decided it might be of use to him. So he hasn’t been paying attention to the network, much. Forgive him. Now, though, he has questions that he cannot divine the answers to himself.

He needs a basis of knowledge here that he just doesn’t have.

He doesn’t know how to lock this from Wei Wuxian so he... just hopes the man doesn’t see it. ]

Questions:

Inner power - cultivated or gifted?

If cultivated: remains the same from home?

If given: boon or bane?

If granted a curse, is cure to be found?



Further questions:

How long imprisoned without dungeon or whip? Freedom only through chance - any hope of choice?

Availability of lotus seeds?

Best wine?

Comments

[secondjade]

Unacceptable.

Focused treatment required.


Unfamiliar with device, communication method.

Physical location?

[jadus]

It may be possible. But more information will be required.

Far from you. [His mask tilts away from the communicator, attention on something else, unseen.] I will purchase the seeds. Where are you assigned to live?

[secondjade]

Transformation against will.

Other powers vital.

[ He's not talking of himself, but this man doesn't need to know that. ]

Jeopardy. The fourth.

Gratitude.

[jadus]

Under what circumstances?

[Jeopardy 004. He sends it to 002 instead.] The seeds will arrive in three days.

[secondjade]

Unsure.

Best guess: emotional trigger.


Again, Gratitude.

[jadus]

Emotions can be tamed. I have techniques to do so.

[secondjade]

I, also.

Untamable.

Must be willing. Is not.

Continued attempts to be made.

[jadus]

Then either you will learn to accept it, or you will decay.

[secondjade]

Define decay.

[jadus]

Emotional unrestraint. The privilege of the body and the immediate over the spirit.

[secondjade]

[ There is a much longer pause, this time. ]

Disagree.

Emotion not solely body. Body surface level. Hunger. Pain.

Will of spirit hardest to restrain. Response to Injustice.

No wish to restrain it.

Forcing restrictions brings despair.

[jadus]

It is not. But excess breeds apathy. It becomes an unattainable goal, and a waste of the mind.

[secondjade]

Not unattainable if supported.

Not destructive if understood.

Freedom gives no waste.


Transformation unwanted, but heart desired.

No sacrifice of one to calm the other.

[jadus]

[There is a long silence.]

Perhaps to some. To others, bound by different powers, the destruction is inescapable.

[secondjade]

[ It hits far too close to home - closer than Jadus could possibly know. So there's a silence almost as long as the other man's. ]

Destruction sometimes fated.

Fight fate.

[jadus]

It can be evaded and fought, but its reality cannot be denied.

[secondjade]

No denial.

Defiance.