jin ling

[soba]

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[soba]

We have no idea.

[ LITERALLY

NO FUCKING IDEA ]

[goldpeony]

What...?

[His face drops exasperatedly.]

How do you not know?

[soba]

I promise you it was extremely unclear.

[ he is just pretty sure they did not manage to do what they needed ]

[goldpeony]

[Then he frowns.]

So you didn't... succeed? What does that mean... for us?

[soba]

I have no idea.

I don't know if anyone else managed to finish either.

[goldpeony]

...No one? [WHAT THE FCK.] How did--?!

[No, he can't say that.]

We almost didn't either...

[soba]

I don't know for sure. Just...

[ he sighs ]

We shouldn't be too surprised if it's more bad news than good. We'll just have to make it work.

[goldpeony]

[He glances down and then back up.]

Is that why they...? [Died? Are gone? Who knows.] Master Blue is gone, too.

[soba]

... I'm not sure.

[ he frowns ]

It could have been the house. It would be the perfect time, since the rest of us were gone.

[goldpeony]

...Fuck.

[His shoulders drop slowly, almost like he's ready to be defeated. At least for this moment. Tomorrow is a different story, as bull-headed as he is.]

[soba]

... we'll figure it out.

I'm sure we'll learn new information tomorrow. Remember our first week here? We didn't know shit at first.

[goldpeony]

Yeah. [It's an agreement because he doesn't know any other way to make their situation sound better.] We can do it. And then we can go home.

...

...Did you come for food?

[soba]

... oh. Yeah.

[ no, he was actually keeping an eye out for jin ling. a few people, actually, but he has bumped into him in the mansion kitchen a few times, so he figured this might be a good place to look. ]

[goldpeony]

There's not a lot of ingredients in... wherever we are. I was only able to make congee.

...If you want some or whatever.

[soba]

Oh, that's fine.

[ he doesn't care or anything!! ]

[goldpeony]

[toi

He backpedals slowly into the kitchen again, giving Toi room to come in if wanted. He points to the pot of congee.]

[soba]

[ toi follows in after him, and then goes to get a bowl

congee time ]

[goldpeony]

It's spicy.

[But not, like, wwx spicy, so Toi is fine.]

[soba]

I'm not going to die from spice.

[goldpeony]

You say that, but you haven't tried the spicy congee I have. We all almost died.

[soba]

What the hell are you putting in your food.

[goldpeony]

It wasn't me! [He sounds offended.] That damn... Wei Wuxian! Some of the disciples got corpse poisoning, including stupid Lan Jingyi! He said congee would cure it.

But when he made it--it was so spicy you could barely eat it! We all wanted to die!

[soba]

Was it that spicy on purpose or does he just not know how to cook?

[goldpeony]

Does it matter? It was too spicy! Our throats were on fire, and he acted like nothing was wrong! He even though Hanguang-jun could handle spice, and we had to tell him he was stupid.

Hanguang-jun doesn't like spice at all.

[soba]

... who are all these people, anyway?