mannerless | open post!

( first comes a picture of a rectangular slip of talisman paper, full to the edges with an inked swarm of bunnies, each wearing a lan headband. some feast on carrots, others climb over one another or sniff at the air, while still more nap huddled together as he has often seen them do. )

I thought, what with the unfathomable length of your disciplinary tome, that we might like a bookmark to hold our place.

Which I suppose also carries the bold assumption that we'll be reading more than once, but there it is.

Edited 2020-05-19 12:08 (UTC)

( ...ah. Pre... tty. Rabbits. )

They are at ease.

Of course they are, they know no concept of hunger or fear. No predator dares threaten the rabbits of Hanguang-Jun.

Wei Ying knows no hunger, fear or predator. You are not at ease.

Ah, but that was not always so. These things echo for quite a while after they're gone.

Perhaps in a few more months, I too will be at ease. You'll find me sprawled amongst the rabbits munching a carrot. Perhaps I'll wear white that day, then we'll see if you can tell which rabbit is me.

Oh, but the headbands will give me away. And I don't dare remove theirs - I'm neither family nor spouse, what indignity that would be!

( do you see what happens when you ignore this man for more than an hour? nonsense, is what. )

You will never go hungry again.

On ancestors, this is sworn.

Because I'll have become a rabbit at ease, or simply because I'm Wei Ying?

( he fails to point out that of the three, hunger was always the least of his troubles. no need to seem ungrateful when the truth is very much the opposite. )

Shameless.

Lan Zhan, you know me perhaps better than anyone. Can you name a single time in which I've had an appropriate amount of shame?

I know that I won't go hungry. Lan Zhan is far too good to me and somehow makes sure all of Lan sect is the same. I don't know how to accept these things without making light of them somehow. Another 'perhaps one day I will'.