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[taciturnly]

( on the screen, the upper body of a regal-looking man, clad in white and pale blues, a ribbon around his head. on his shoulders, cocks, particularly fat and of the feathery kind, ominously staring into your soul. there’s a few cuts on the man’s cheek, bleeding dots on his neck—despite the additional rooster suddenly crowning his head, lan wangji looks impressively unperturbed, but if you squint, you might catch the light flare of his nostrils every time he breathes in, or the faint twitch in his left eye. low clucking sounds indicate there might be more, one stray feather gracefully spat out the moment he parts his lips on a measured sigh.

look at all those chickens. at least a dozen as the camera zooms in and out, and then the video ends, a text message instead. )

If these are yours, please come and fetch them. So long as you do not loiter, they will remain unharmed.

My name is Lan Wangji. You will find me by an old mill, near the mountain.

Comments

[taciturnly]

( nie mingjue is long dead..............unless????????????? oh boy indeed, and that's only the tip of the iceberg. clusterfuck incoming. )

Two days ago, at most.

They seem exceptionally aggressive. You seem well-informed.

[porndealer]

[Who is dead? Suddenly I can't read!]

Did you feed them by accident? There's ducks at the lake that get that way too, though not this bad.

[Unless you're Jiang Cheng.]

We've been here for months now. It's not just you and me, there's many of us here.

[taciturnly]

( oh dear. you're in for a surprise. or many, actually. w e l p. )

No. Perhaps I should.

( maybe they are hungry. took him for a meal. like wwx should )

Who? ( he knows of a few, already. guess which ones. and don't skip anyone 8I )

[porndealer]

[He's already got a bad inkling about the future from how others have been calling him Sect leader so. Sooooo... just gonna pretend the worst hasn't happened. EVERYTHING IS FINE.]

Well, if there's no one else new besides you... Wei Wuxian, Jiang Cheng and Jiang Yanli, then there's two of your Lan disciples, Lan Sizhui and Lan Jingyi. Wen Ning is here too and oh I just saw one of the daozhangs on this a few days ago.

Oh and me of course.

[taciturnly]

( YOU CANNOT ESCAPE FATE. )

Jiang Yanli... How?

Whose doing? ( y'know... you were kind of involved in someone else's resurrection, once upon a time. so. )

[porndealer]

[SORRY I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER NOT KNOWING ANYTHING.]

How? Whose...?

I don't know what you mean. We were all brought here by the Technicians, that's what they call themselves.

[For real, he's not just being a head shaker this time. Pinkie swear.]

[taciturnly]

( WTF IS GOING ON WITH THIS PLACE!!! )

Your last memory, before you awakened here?

[porndealer]

[NOTHING GOOD.]

It was just before we left to go to little Jin Ling's one month celebration.