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[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

[usaf]

OK... That's a whole lot of words that don't make all that much sense to me.

I'm just going to go out on a limb and say the worlds we come from are pretty different.

[secondjade]

Yes.

This world far from mine.

Unnatural.

[usaf]

I felt pretty far from home when I first arrived, too. And I'm still from Earth, just one that's a few decades in the past of this one.

But I've traveled pretty far in my life, seeing many different planets. It's not impossible to get used to someplace that's different. You just have to work at it.

[secondjade]

Entire laws of nature changed.

Pillars of spirituality shifted.

Fundamental principles of purposes no longer maintained.

[usaf]

I've never been a spiritual person, but I know what it's like to have the rug pulled out from under you, leaving you needing to find a new purpose.

[secondjade]

Suspect all must, in this place.

You speak of previous?

[usaf]

Before I came here, yeah.

I was fighting a war. I thought I was on the good side. Turns out I wasn't.

[secondjade]

Did you pay penance?

[usaf]

I was trying to. Being brought here sort of threw a wrench in that.