voice - pre lake party (un: @useless.coward)

[porndealer]

-- into this? I think I did it right. H-Hello? Can anyone hear me talking with this?

[There's a pause, hesitation before Huaisang speaks up again, maybe a little muffled as a finger ends up over the phone's microphone.]

Da-ge? Are you here too?

[There's a lot of dead air as he attempts to figure out how to end this, but eventually he does.]

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[soups]

❰ yanli turns the phone at a few angles before seeing the screen again, somewhat startled that nie huaisang is somehow inside such a small device. actually, based on the image she's seeing, it appears he's somewhere else but she's receiving some kind of vision of him.

how...bizarre.

what's also strange is how he calls her. she looks at the phone, wondering if he can see her as well and offers a wave -- just in the case of some mistaken identity. huaisang was just at the party where her previous engagement was brought up, but from what she knows...he's always been the flightiest of wuxian's friends. ❱

I think you're mistaken, Nie-gongzi. I'm not engaged to Jin-gongzi anymore, let alone part of Jin sect. ❰ her response is smiling and good-natured, but it is something of a sore subject. she'll think more about what that all means now that she's here and he's so far...somewhere else at a later date. ❱

A-Xian knows -- are you feeling alright? You aren't trapped somewhere are you? ❰ yanli just wants to make sure, her knowledge of this phone is very limited. ❱

[porndealer]

[Wait what does she mean not- clear visible confusion has quite the impressive face journey going on for Huaisang at that information. You don't just leave a sect, or most don't. Most definitely not the wife of the heir to the Jin sect! How did he not hear about this?!]

Not engaged anymore?

[That's makes even less sense as they'd been married. Regardless, it's not his place to gossip or press her about it, that would be rude, so he'll shake his head a little as if to disregard it. He'll have to ask Wuxian what's going on, surely he'd know.]

I don't know about feeling alright, it's so hot and so much makes so little sense! [Let's not whine at poor Yanli now.] But I guess I'm okay... is Wei-xiong with you Jiang-guniang? You're safe?

[soups]

❰ the question hits yanli, but she absorbs it and masks a deep breath. her relationship with jin zixuan is often a sore spot, and the less she gets to talk about it, the happier she is. hie huaisang isn't being malicious, she knows, but the ignorance stings just as much. ❱

It'll definitely take getting used to if we're here for a stretch of time. But... ❰ she certainly hopes it isn't the case, but she definitely doesn't know him well enough to go down that emotional road. another thought that's skipped over again. ❱ He's not with me at the moment, but I've seen him and A-Cheng. I'm glad we're not alone here, even under the circumstances.

Ah, but... ❰ yanli feels the weight of her perceived insensitivity immediately. there's definitely a difference between having friends with you versus your family. ❱ If you can't find Nie-zongzhu, I'm sure we can help you look for him.

[porndealer]

Oh I hope not.

[The last thing he wants is to stay in this strange place. He wants to go back home! He wants to see his brother. Huaisang just wants to hide away in his room with his birds and paint. He wants to be safe and his friends to be safe too. If those papers are anything to go by, safe isn't in the cards for them.]

So you saw them on this thing too? Are they coming to find you? [He then tries to smile a little, as if to reassure them both.] It's okay, he might not even be here. Maybe they didn't take Da-ge... they'd be stupid to try and kidnap the Red-Blade Master! Maybe that's uh, why I'm here.

[soups]

Not on here...this is the first time I've used this thing, whatever it is.

❰ now her face can be seen clearly -- she's figured out the logistics of this much. a little wave is offered to huaisang as the sleep mode screen tilts to clarity and she can see his face again.

it's a good argument for him to make...but. not to say that wei wuxian is on the same playing field as nie mingjue, but she can see how someone like herself would be easily kidnapped. nie huaisang...she won't be so rude as to comment. but wei wuxian and jiang cheng are certainly forces to be reckoned with. none of it makes any sense. ❱

In that case, I hope that he isn't here and safe back home. Hopefully we can all find a way to follow him back, somehow...

Maybe we can take these vision devices back home, though. I'd like to be able to talk to other people from far away like this.

[porndealer]

[Don't worry Yanli he wouldn't take it as an insult. At least not from her. Huaisang knows his skills are very lacking compared to most cultivators. He can use a sword, but relying on it in a fight would probably not be a wise decision.]

I hope so... if we stay here too long we'll melt!

[Ah yes, that's the thing to be concerned about. Heatstroke. Not impending doom and death.]

Right? We wouldn't have to travel so much to speak with everyone. How convenient would that be?