[ That response comes so fast and eager, he had been impatiently waiting for an answer. The next words appear a little slower and with more hesitation. The quiver strokes are deft though and speak of conviction. ]
I know you will figure it out. You are the one who can find solutions when nobody else can.
( oh, that's. that's far too much, quite a bit more than he can deal with at the moment, and he's snapping his journal closed in a way which more closely resembles a flinch than a purposeful movement - but once again he reopens it, his gaze flitting over the words as one darts across hot coals before he puts pen to page. )
How is she?
( don't just tell him about the arm again - is she upset, worried but hiding it? how out-of-sorts does she seem? )
Any chance you might take the beast out to run around for a bit? ( so that shijie can have some reprieve, but mostly so that wei ying can once he's arrived. )
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[ That response comes so fast and eager, he had been impatiently waiting for an answer. The next words appear a little slower and with more hesitation. The quiver strokes are deft though and speak of conviction. ]
I know you will figure it out. You are the one who can find solutions when nobody else can.
[ Then, another pause. ]
I trust you with her.
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How is she?
( don't just tell him about the arm again - is she upset, worried but hiding it? how out-of-sorts does she seem? )
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More composed than I am. As you can imagine.
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You know how it goes. She spent more time on reassuring me than on her injury, I'm afraid.
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( what else should he have expected? )
Any chance you might take the beast out to run around for a bit? ( so that shijie can have some reprieve, but mostly so that wei ying can once he's arrived. )
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[ A moment's chagrined silence then ]
Jie will be relieved when I'm not hovering anyway.