prompts / continuations.

[fennu]

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[fennu]

You are just a bully.

[desultorily]

Sorry, sorry. Don't heed me. What do I know? My only prospect is a donkey, and I'll tell you plainly — it's got better taste than to settle.

[fennu]

And I've been blacklisted three times. It doesn't matter.

[desultorily]

If no one will marry you, I'll adopt you into my family. I plan to take in every orphan off the road from here to Lanling. You can be the motherly figure of Yiling.

[fennu]

Wei Wuxian! I am not going to be a mother!

[desultorily]

Now, beggars can be choosers?

[fennu]

You tell me. You're the beggar.

[desultorily]

And did I tell you of the time a beautiful woman dropped an entire fig in my hands? Unbitten. In season. The world was a better place.

[fennu]

Tch. As if a fig means anything.

[desultorily]

Ah, young master, young master, your rice bowl's never gone empty.

[fennu]

You don't make sense.

[desultorily]

A fig's worth its weight in silver, some days.

Anyway, what's this about denying your family role to my adopted children? Shouldn't you be happy to be involved? Jin Ling was only your first trial.

[fennu]

I was his uncle, not his mother.

[desultorily]

Did you change his swaddling?

[fennu]

I did everything he needed me to.

[desultorily]

You see, then? Maternal.

And you, threatening to break his legs. As if you'd know which bone to start with.

[fennu]

I know all his bones! I raised them!

[desultorily]

You might have coddled some and broken a few others, so he looks less like his peacock father.

[fennu]

He takes after A-Jie, obviously.

[desultorily]

He smiles like her. When he isn't grinning for the Jin.

[fennu]

He loves like her too. Intensely.

[desultorily]

...so. You've been loved well, then. For sixteen years.

That's good. That's really good.

[fennu]

I didn't say that he loved me like she did, Wei Wuxian.

[desultorily]

No one loves like she did. As if the sun could envelop you, and keep you warm forever.

[fennu]

It was just in her nature. She was like the sun.