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The Bar has not relented in her attempts to get Harrow to eat something with slightly more calories than air. After many false starts, she seems to have struck gold with potatoes, a vegetable Harrow has never had before.

Mashed was a success; soup went well, too. But chips--ahhh, chips. Hot, salty, taste like almost nothing at all. Harrow may never eat anything else again. After several false starts in the dipping sauce area she has made peace with a light sprinkling of vinegar. The only problem is they make her gloves and her papers greasy.

Therefore, find Harrowhark Nonagesimus at a table with her journal and a skeletal hand, drawing spirals and... God help us... eating chips with a fork. It could be worse. The hand could be feeding them to her.

Date: 2020-10-10 05:04 pm (UTC)
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Wei Wuxian lets out a whoop of glee. "It worked!" he crows. "Well done, Harrow. That is incredible!"

A thousand new avenues open up in his mind, theorizing how to pass control of a talisman from one cultivator to another, the possibilities such a mechanism could open -- it would probably not work as neatly as with Harrow, considering she can control the bones without a talisman, but still. Still. Oh, he will have to test this with Lan Zhan when he returns.

(When. One way or another, he will find Lan Zhan.)

Date: 2020-10-11 01:24 am (UTC)
acrookedpath: (bright grin)
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Necromancers, plural: it still sends a thrill through him. It is one thing to create, but to collaborate, to have a peer, and to see the proof of their joined labors in front of them --

He's laughing, elated. "Yes! If I had a drink, I would toast to us," he says. "Look at the marvel we've accomplished! And I should not have to modify the talisman too much before you place it on your own arm -- oh! The portal work! Will you still need that?"

Wei Wuxian grabs the other two talismans he'd laid aside earlier.

Date: 2020-10-11 01:37 am (UTC)
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"Right, yes, so -- "

He pushes them across the table so she can get a better look. They are far more complex than the paper doll -- and now skeletal arm -- talisman, with multiple columns of characters and sigils woven in between.

"It is not as straightforward, but to break it down to its most simple, this -- " indicating the first column of the first talisman -- "sends out a call to this." Pointing to the last column of the second talisman. "And all of this in between works to draw them toward each other as a compass points north, regardless of distance or what features may lie in between. It is meant more for quick travel, so the portal it creates cannot stay open for long. But it might serve as a basis for calling to the arm from Canaan House?"

Date: 2020-10-11 09:04 pm (UTC)
acrookedpath: (a different cultivation)
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"I haven't," he says with a sigh. He scratches the back of his head with the end of the pen. "If I had, I would not be so worried about Lan Zhan finding his way back here. And I think you are right -- it needs several layers of precision to land properly. Far more than simply distance, as it would back home."

He blows a loose lock of hair out of his face.

"I will think on it. I'm certain it can be done."

Date: 2020-10-12 12:12 am (UTC)
acrookedpath: (a different cultivation)
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"Perhaps."

He's still looking down at the teleportation talismans, idly tapping the pen against the rightmost one.

"Moiraine's cultivation?"

Date: 2020-10-12 12:16 am (UTC)
acrookedpath: (tools of the patriarch)
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He nods. It takes another moment before he looks up at Harrow.

"I would ask that you not share any of my necromancy with her," he says, quietly. "I am glad you have learned much from her. But I still do not trust her not to harm me."

Date: 2020-10-12 02:47 am (UTC)
acrookedpath: (a different cultivation)
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At this, Wei Wuxian visibly relaxes, halting the incessant clatter of the pen against the talisman.

"Thank you," he says, not much louder than before. "I greatly appreciate it, Harrow."

He wants to ask: has she harmed you again? He swallows it back. Harrow has made it plain that Moiraine's aid is worth the risk, and that the bond the two women share is not one easily severed.

Date: 2020-10-12 11:45 pm (UTC)
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He huffs a wry laugh.

"You could say that, yes. But I know that I cannot be responsible for anyone's path but my own, and I must let others walk theirs as I ask them to let me walk mine."

Which is not easy, of course. Sometimes it is nearly impossible. But when has Wei Wuxian ever been afraid of the impossible?

Date: 2020-10-13 12:54 am (UTC)
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Slowly, Wei Wuxian's eyebrows rise.

This could be a way, he thinks. He will not share anything with Moiraine for his own safety; if, at the same time, he studies her cultivation, enough to counter anything she may attempt on him?

It is not trust. Quite the opposite. But at least he would not feel so hunted whenever he spots her blue robes across the room.

"I would be grateful," he says. "Can you think of anything that may work for me, knowing what you know of my own cultivation?"

Date: 2020-10-13 01:30 am (UTC)
acrookedpath: (tools of the patriarch)
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He nods. Flipping to a blank sheet of talisman paper, he begins to scribble a few notes.

"She mentioned a 'True Source' to me," he says as he tries to cast his mind back to their first conversation, before Moiraine revealed her true colors. "It sounded broadly similar to how I work with resentful energy -- taking energy from outside the self rather than generating it from within."

Date: 2020-10-13 01:50 am (UTC)
acrookedpath: (a different cultivation)
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The pen slows for half a heartbeat at the mention of Lan Zhan; in short order, he returns to himself and resumes scribbling.

"I see," he says. "And -- you mentioned elements. I assume she is able to divide the energy somehow, once she has retrieved it?"

Date: 2020-10-13 01:20 pm (UTC)
acrookedpath: (a different cultivation)
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Moiraine has always seemed so focused on light and shadow -- and more than that, the inherent goodness of light verses the inherent evil of shadow. To hear she may have begun walking in the grey space between is... interesting. Perhaps even promising.

(Not nearly enough to get Wei Wuxian to trust her, though.)

He adds another note to the paper. "So her source is more a bundle of silk, with different cloths as different elements," he muses aloud. "I suppose that fits with her calling it weaving. So you have been able to -- not channel it, but differentiate your thanergy the same way? How?"
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