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

[photophobic]

Exhausting.

[secondjade]

[ It was exhausting. But then, Wangji found communication in general to be exhausting. The mere act of connecting was labour intensive for him, and often not worth it. When one could not know the true nature of another, and was bound to be misunderstood, why go out of the way to prevent it?

His actions could speak for him.



... Except over text messages. ]

Silence often preferred.

Connection exhausting, regardless of syllables.

[photophobic]

So why exhaust yourself twice over. If the experience itself is inevitably tiring. What do you gain by it?

[secondjade]

[ There isn't a response for a while. It's a question he finds impossible to answer, both because he can't articulate how he feels but also because he doesn't think he has to. It's a deeply personal question.

But perhaps thanks to the way that text allows for greater length of thought between utterances, he does, in fact, eventually reply. ]


Other option solitude.


[ He couldn't be verbose if he tried. ]


Precise of word, precise of thought. Clarity cuts fog.