She inclines her head. "Lan Wangji, the Ninth practices physical discipline as well. Not so much now as in my father's day, but it happens. I have sentenced people to a certain number of strokes, or digging ditches, or inedia."

Mostly Gideon, truthfully, but not only Gideon.

"My opinion of Gusu Lan is not changed by this, I promise you. And I will not distress Wei Wuxian. That, too, I promise."

She turns her black eyes away and back to her diagram. "All else aside, I have so much happening right now that I do not have the time to help him mount a war in another dimension at the moment."