Zizhen just gives him a little smile and bumps his shoulder back - he gets it, it's okay, he's familiar with Jin Ling's temper and he can understand why he might be on a shorter fuse than usual right now.
"Did Liling bring food yet? Let's get back on the bed and have some dinner, then we can figure out how we're going to get to the bottom of this while your uncle's away." he decides. They've been sitting on the floor long enough, he hopes it's enough time for Ling to recover his strength, but he scrambles to his feet and offers his friend a hand - a totally normal, casual move, just silent support offered if Jin Ling needs or wants it.
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A couple of the juniors who were closest come running at the sight of the signal flare, but they're not the only ones - Wei Wuxian had ever so slightly modified the talismans before handing them over to Sizhui; the signal that they sent up was subtly different to the usual one, just so he'd know it was Yuan's talisman that had been activated. It isn't that he wouldn't come running for any of the other juniors, he just wanted to know.
When he comes running in and sees the slumped, white-robed figure behind Jingyi, he sees red, darkness already beginning to swirl around him as he brings Chenqing to his lips - he knows he isn't supposed to fight like this anymore, but if they're going to hurt his son they deserve every bit of resentful energy he can summon. These people claim their village is being attacked by ghosts? He'll show them ghosts.
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2021-09-20 09:07 (UTC)Zizhen just gives him a little smile and bumps his shoulder back - he gets it, it's okay, he's familiar with Jin Ling's temper and he can understand why he might be on a shorter fuse than usual right now.
"Did Liling bring food yet? Let's get back on the bed and have some dinner, then we can figure out how we're going to get to the bottom of this while your uncle's away." he decides. They've been sitting on the floor long enough, he hopes it's enough time for Ling to recover his strength, but he scrambles to his feet and offers his friend a hand - a totally normal, casual move, just silent support offered if Jin Ling needs or wants it.
~~~
A couple of the juniors who were closest come running at the sight of the signal flare, but they're not the only ones - Wei Wuxian had ever so slightly modified the talismans before handing them over to Sizhui; the signal that they sent up was subtly different to the usual one, just so he'd know it was Yuan's talisman that had been activated. It isn't that he wouldn't come running for any of the other juniors, he just wanted to know.
When he comes running in and sees the slumped, white-robed figure behind Jingyi, he sees red, darkness already beginning to swirl around him as he brings Chenqing to his lips - he knows he isn't supposed to fight like this anymore, but if they're going to hurt his son they deserve every bit of resentful energy he can summon. These people claim their village is being attacked by ghosts? He'll show them ghosts.