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[goldpeony]

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w0, post-trial

[goldpeony]

Sect Leader Nie, I'm going to wash!

[His hands and arms, he means. He'll wash everything else later, too, but yeah. He's going to the kitchen because that's the best place, and he refuses to go into their room after.... YEAH.]

[unanswering]

[first of all how fucking dare you with this image that's not a shitpost at ALL

but nie huaisang trails after the sound of his voice, there, fretfully fanning himself along the way.]

No one ever mentioned anything else wrong with her corpse, but...

[but that doesn't mean there wasn't!]

[goldpeony]

[hehehe]

No one said anything about strange curse marks or decay, and she didn’t reanimate. [Only mildly comforting.] The other girl acted more like a fierce corpse and she wasn’t even dead!

Do you know what they did with Tenoh Haruka’s body?

w0, post execution

[unanswering]

[He can SEE. Bless. He doesn't need an escort to find Jin Ling anymore, and so he wanders through the house seemingly aimlessly, keeping an eye out for him. Wherever Nie Huaisang happens to find him, he hurries over, looking relieved.]

Young master Jin-! Has your sight returned too?

[goldpeony]

[Glad that his vision has been returned, he's taking the chance to more cautiously inspect things he initially took for granted.

But he does turn when Huaisang chirps at him while running over. There's something new at his waist, too! Well, familiar, but newly acquired. A certain purple, lotus-engraved bell.]

Sect Leader Nie? Yeah, it's back. Yours, too?

[unanswering]

[Oh, he got something too-- Nie Huaisang's eyes flick to the bell, quietly noting it. The fan in his hands is also new; it's not open, but it's easily identifiable as the one he often carried thanks to the charm dangling from its handle.]

It is... I was starting to think it really wasn't going to come back.

[He exhales a relieved sigh, there, with a slight shake of his head.]

w1, sunday post-trial

[goldpeony]

[Don't know how long it will take, but Jin Ling looks all over for Huaisang because he's stubborn as fuck.]

Sect Leader Nie!

[unanswering]

Young master Jin, there you are-

[He exhales a relieved breath on catching sight of Jin Ling, there. He's in the study for now, collecting more paper and ink.]

Are you all right?

[goldpeony]

I'm-- [Nevermind that. He hurries up to Huaisang's side to see what the guy is doing.] I was thinking about this place. You know all the stories about the Yiling Patriarch? The stories used to scare everyone--the stories here remind me of that.

Also I have explosives.

What are you doing?

w2, friday

[unanswering]

Young master Jin!!

[hi jin ling! nie huaisang is here! he's screaming! he looks so relieved though, god.]

Where were you?! You never came back- I went to look for you, but...

[goldpeony]

Sect Leader Nie! [Wait.] You what?! Sect Leader Nie, I told you that you should stay in the room no matter what!

[AAAAAAA.]

Ayabe, Kuji Toi, and I were trying something in the stairway! Carbide Ash was there, too!

[unanswering]

You should have said something! I didn't know where you were, I thought... I thought-

[that something else might be keeping him away.]

I hoped I could bring you back in time, but I got stuck in the conservatory...

w2, post trial

[goldpeony]

[SOMEONE IS LOOKING FOR HUAISANG AFTER ALL THIS IS OVER.

He doesn't look very happy!]

[unanswering]

[he's in their room!

while he looks up at jin ling, and starts to open his mouth... he gives up, shaking his head.]

[goldpeony]

[jin ling pulls out a gun and shoots him

no

He frowns angrily into the room at Huaisang, but it looks like he isn't sure what he wants to say. After a moment, he takes just one step inside.]

Why didn't you say anything, Sect Leader Nie?!

w3, post-trial

[unanswering]

-young master Jin.

[Where's Jin Ling, he's coming to find him! He looks tired, both because of the injuries and because he's spent the day being more actively useful, which is honestly more tiring than he remembers it being. It's so much easier to just nudge people along instead...]

That was nearly too close for comfort.

[goldpeony]

[Jin Ling also looks tired af. He put the white undergarments back on, but they're bloody in the back, and he hasn't put any of the bandages on again. He frowns at Huaisang, but not judgmentally.]

Sect Leader Nie...! I was--you-- [He drops his head.] ...I was worried it was you.

[unanswering]

-because I matched as well?

[he exhales a sigh, there, shakes his head.]

I'm-- sorry I had to press you so much, young master Jin. You knew what I had. I knew if it were you, and if you would do what it took to survive, you wouldn't say you were innocent so boldly when I would know if you were lying.

w4, Wednesday

[unanswering]

[their ROOM. god. nie huaisang is busy getting those notebooks off the fucking bed, one remaining open to the page where that word is repeated over and over.]

If this really is one of the dead telling us something, I wish they'd be more considerate-!!

[goldpeony]

[closes eyes

Jin Ling doesn't like anything about this, but he's got a hard run-into-danger streak. Huaisang doesn't want to touch, but Jin Ling sure picks up one of them to look it over while crouched.]

These are... Does someone know how to write our language?

[unanswering]

I don't know! No one has ever mentioned it... but someone suggested they might have looked this up?

[it's only one word, so... maybe. he settles in on the bed.]

w5, thursday morning

[unanswering]

Young master Jin-- we need to talk, if you have a moment.

[hello jin ling! nie huaisang's come to find him, wherever he happens to be this morning, looking as serious as a slime can look. he's... trying.]

[goldpeony]

[Even if it’s Huaisang, Jin Ling looks sour when he is accosted. There’s a scuff on his chin, and a few peacock feathers missing before the tail drops into a train behind him.]

What is it?

w5, after die day announce

[goldpeony]

[Jin Ling is fucking DRAGGING. He runs out to check on the garden crew, but then immediately after... he is legitimately asleep in the grass.

He's just so tired, gomen.]

[unanswering]

[GOD.

well, it's not like he doesn't understand... he'll let jin ling sleep a while, actually, settled in the grass nearby to keep an eye out for him.

eventually, he reaches over to shake him awake, sorry about the slime that will be on his shoulder.]

Young master Jin. Wake up for a bit.