Page 13 of 13 << [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] >>

Date: 2025-04-16 05:03 am (UTC)
detective_xiaobao: (25)
From: [personal profile] detective_xiaobao
[They are friends now. The probability of being poisoned has decreased by at least half. Which puts it at just shy of a normal day, probably. The Jianghu being what it is.]

Experience, I think. His world seems very [simple? straight forward?] set on its course. The pieces that move about do so predictably--or the role that he plays is clear enough that ally and enemy never blur. I don't think he's ever had cause to make peace with someone... and I'd like to hope that means he's never suffered betrayals, either.

Date: 2025-04-20 01:01 am (UTC)
fragmentaryblue: (41)
From: [personal profile] fragmentaryblue
"You could humor me a little," she chides him, though she lacks the vibrancy for a proper ribbing. He likely knows a stalling tactic when he sees one--or perhaps his people were too mindful to try it, boring as she remembers them being. At least he indulges her in a sip of tea while she gathers her thoughts up like wildflowers in her hands, even as she lacks a vase to put them in.

"I would begin--traditionally--by laying the foundation of my story with Once Upon a Time. But time has not flown traditionally, and my tale could be both distant or recent by different measures. Instead, I will simply say, that this tale begins on a beach--with a daring young knight and his gentle lady. They find a likeness in each other, in their solitude and in their innocence. Their kingdoms will be at war one day, but that day has not yet dawned. Thus... he invites her home."

Her hand encircles around her cup, but she doesn't lift it to her lips. She only inspects the surface of the liquid with far more intention than she's given to his face. The words shake free a little easier, when she speaks them into a teacup, couched in a fairy-tale. "It is... a pleasant dwelling. Their needs are attended to--food and shelter, and most importantly the company kept. He brushes her hair for her and makes a mess of it, though there's kindness in the trying. A third joins their number, wild-eyed and curious, too feral for knighthood but no less enchanting. I hear, as the story goes, that he prefers wolves to spiders."

Date: 2025-05-04 09:00 pm (UTC)
doctor_uhh: (172)
From: [personal profile] doctor_uhh
What's with the cute disdain? Isn't that what the panther's inevitable watchful presence is meant to be? A lecture on not allowing some random stupid illness to defeat him in the end, on finding a way to cure himself with force of will alone, on never simply accepting the gains and losses fate hands out? The man is remarkably patient on this, or perhaps just characteristically tenacious, but Li Lianhua remains a poor student. He may know the right things to want these days, but knowing is only half the battle. And Li Lianhua is still so tired of battles.

He's also tired of being a disappointment. There does not need to be recrimination in the eyes of a big cat for Li Lianhua to find plenty within himself. His smile curls bitterly, and there's a sharpness underpinning the usual barbed levity between them that is woefully misdirected.

"You must be pretty bored of this by now. Next time I'll find something to die of that's more convenient for you to fight, alright?"

Date: 2025-05-06 12:27 am (UTC)
fragmentaryblue: (31)
From: [personal profile] fragmentaryblue
At some point in the silence after she speaks, Blue's eyes do lift to regard Di Feisheng with something like anticipation, waiting for judgment or at least comment, searching for a hint as to the content of his thoughts. When he does finally voice them, he graces her with such a trivial complaint that a smirk pulls unconsciously at her lips, a very mild humor that she hides behind a sip of her tea. Not relief quite yet, but a start; and her breath comes a fraction easier than it did a few moments ago.

The questions are expected, and true to his nature he jumps directly to the most strategic ones. The concern would be touching, if she thought it was meant that way, and meant for her. But she doubts it.

"Aren't we captured already?" What is this place but a prison? But she knows he doesn't mean that, and she doesn't want to waste his time (at this moment).

She all but shrugs her next words from her shoulders, less of a burden than the ones she offered before. "I'm not worried. There are those who would like to kill me if they found me here, but I'll deal with them if they come."

Date: 2025-05-08 03:30 pm (UTC)
flatteries: (glass half empty)
From: [personal profile] flatteries
[ Can't believe Di Feisheng would say all these things about tigers, implying Inigo should stay away from them, and then immediately tells him to go talk to Blue. Cruel. Dangling a child above a tiger pit.

Though Inigo doesn't see the danger, of course. Despite the other's words. It's why he doesn't push back against the other's suggestion at all, instead quickly sending back: ]


I will.

[ And then, added-- ]

I'll negotiate a reward for you from her.

[un: nolastname.siffrin | early may]

Date: 2025-05-14 03:54 am (UTC)
tothebetterend: (happy)
From: [personal profile] tothebetterend
[An image is sent one afternoon, with a message to follow it up shortly after.]

Isabeau is here!!!

[One less thing to burden Di Feisheng with One less person to keep track of!]

text; un: lovecraft

Date: 2025-05-15 01:53 am (UTC)
la_meme_chosen: (23)
From: [personal profile] la_meme_chosen
[Unannounced, unprompted, unsigned other than her screen handle:]

Hello! How are you doing? Are you enjoying the competitions?

Date: 2025-05-30 03:39 am (UTC)
la_meme_chosen: (32)
From: [personal profile] la_meme_chosen
[Who SAYS. Just answer the question!!]

Oh! Sorry! This is Mirabelle. Siffrin gave me your name on this... I hope that's okay?

Date: 2025-05-30 04:38 am (UTC)
tothebetterend: (questioning 1)
From: [personal profile] tothebetterend
[If Siffrin was a little better at remembering things, he might have context behind Di Feisheng's message, but instead he sits there staring at it for a good while, desperately searching his brain. Didn't lie about what? Should they have thought they were lied to?? But they both agree this is good news...

What if...they just try to play it cool. This could work.]


It's pretty crowded in the house with three of us now, but we're used to it. It's too bad we're all on different teams. That makes things kinda complicated.
detective_xiaobao: (050)
From: [personal profile] detective_xiaobao
Hey, how's the house? Are you remembering to water the vegetables when the weather is dry?

Date: 2025-06-01 07:12 pm (UTC)
detective_xiaobao: (029)
From: [personal profile] detective_xiaobao
Isn't that too mean to Huli Jing?

[Wonder who that's for. Not him!]

Are you still mad that I've left the chores to you? You should know it's for the best.

Date: 2025-06-07 04:02 pm (UTC)
tothebetterend: (disbelieving 2)
From: [personal profile] tothebetterend
[Hmmm??? Well, he can't say he knows these people well, but still...]

Really? Fang Duobing didn't seem like the cowardly type.
Maybe...he's trying to spare you?
We all eat on our own in the city because our kitchen might explode if we tried to eat together there.
Page 13 of 13 << [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] >>
Page generated Jun. 11th, 2025 01:48 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios