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« sandpiper » TEXT ✧ AUDIO ✧ VIDEO ✧ ACTION Nie Huaisang ✦ Mo Dao Zu Shi
RESIDENCE ✦ 4 BR House in the Sumar Province
GEMBOND ✦ Amethyst

35. Male. Bisexual. Crushes on handsome male friends who touch him a lot and has no idea what to do with a woman besides get awkwardly drunk, cry into her bosom, and ramble about his hobbies. Professional hot mess with secret aspirations of guiding his home society into being less of an infighting shitshow. Powerful 'step on me' energy. Unfulfilled boyhood dreams of being a useless trophy husband and pillow king.

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[illicitly]

Don't give up so easily! If we're already here, we might as well just break in. If he's inside and it's just a false alarm, I'm sure he'll understand if we frame it as concern for him.

[It's not even a lie. Huaisang's a little worried about his counterpart, too. Besides, he dressed this way for a reason and that reason was in case he had to get his hands dirty.]

Do you see any points of entry other than this door?

[zidianing]

[Well. Okay. He could frame it as concern for his friend.]

Possible for the balcony on the other side. I suppose--

[He looks down at his hand]

I could create a bridge from one balcony to his. Or use Zidian to swing over.

[illicitly]

A bridge would work. Or you could fly up on your sword! You have your sword, don't you?

[Someone doesn't seem to have clued into the fact he can fly on his own yet. Then he pauses a moment, head tilting to side.]

You can fly on swords in your world, too, right?

[Listen, he's still trying to process everything about the situation, okay. Potentially dumb questions might get asked.]

[zidianing]

[He narrows his eyes]

Yes, we do.

[He pulls Sandu out but clutches at the sword still sheathed in its scabbard. Would it work?]

I'd have to bring you over by your hand or collar.

[illicitly]

My hand is fine. I'm not a kitten that needs to be carried around by the scruff.

[He's a sect leader! He has some dignity! Sometimes! Occasionally!]

It beats trying to scale the side of the building. What floor is this? It'd be bad to get the wrong window.

[In the meantime, he's counting the number of doors and calculating roughly where his counterpart's apartment should be from the outside.]

[zidianing]

[For some reason, he has a hard time believing that Nie Huaisang doesn't need to be carried by the scruff. He rattles off the floor number and looks around for the exit outside ]

[illicitly]

[Once Huaisang's worked out approximately which balcony should be the right one, he waves Jiang Wanyin over to the elevator. Now that he's no longer living in fear of being eaten by what had used to appear to him as a maneating door, he's quite comfortable with riding in them.]

Over here! This way! We'll ride it down and go over to the side of the building where his balcony is. His should be the sixth one down.

[zidianing]

[He looks...uneasy for it but goes with Huaisang]

I can't believe how quickly you've adapted to these things so easily.

[illicitly]

You haven't? What have you been doing with all your time?

[Huaisang doesn't mean to cast shade, he really doesn't, but learning his way around their new environment and gaining a little more understanding on just how to simply live in such a place has been his primary focus from the start.]

I've had help from my neighbor. Master Ignis has been really kind and patient with me since our arrival. It's thanks to him that I've learned as much as I have.

[Once they're in the elevator, Huaisang punches the button for the ground floor, looking a little proud of himself. He'd been so scared the first time he'd ridden in one of these and look at him! He's a man who takes the elevator on his own now!]

[zidianing]

[He glares at Huaisang]

I'm not sure of the Jiang Wanyin of your world but I am not one to socialize so easily.

[He snaps at him and grosses his arms, waiting uneasily as the thing goes down.]

[illicitly]

Oh, don't worry. He doesn't either.

[Huaisang sighs heavily.]

Actually, he's pretty grumpy.

[He manages to leave off that 'too'.]

You can relax. It isn't going to fall. I ride in it all the time. It's perfectly safe.

[zidianing]

[Huaisang doesn't say it but Jiang Cheng definitely hears the "too" and frowns deeper]

Safe until it falls.

[He's been on it a handful of times as well and still doesn't trust it.]

[illicitly]

If it falls, it falls.

[Huaisang shrugs.]

There's no sense in worrying about it until then.

[When the reach the bottom floor, there's a ding and the doors open.]