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text; un: epiphyte [backdated just a little]

[personal profile] fragmentaryblue 2024-08-13 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
Seeing as you've been assigned the liaison to my goings-on, I have some intelligence to impart to you.

I'll be holding a birthday celebration for Black Cat at the Stone Dragon cafe on the 10th of this month. Your household is invited, so please relay the invitation as you see fit. The event will begin at noon. Discretion is also advised, but only to avoid spoiling the surprise for the kitten. Gifts will be appreciated but are not required, if you decide to attend.
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[personal profile] fragmentaryblue 2024-08-31 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
Some. I can't do all the work for you. You'll have to do some scouting of your own.

He likes practical things. Money, of course, but that would lack sentiment, and I should know you have an understanding of that.

He likes sweet things, fruits and honey, and things that remind him of being a Cat. He would also appreciate something that takes his poor sight into consideration. Something to help him, or something that he can appreciate without looking at it.

Of course, if you have an idea of your own after conversing with him as you do, then trust your own judgement. I'm sure he'll enjoy being thought of regardless.
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[personal profile] fragmentaryblue 2024-08-31 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
You're not. I've washed my hands of it.

[A debt is the last thing she wants to be owed right now, whether he means it or not. Does she care whether Li Lianhua was hiding healing abilities? Not really. She files the information away that Akechi might have been truthful, but otherwise she has too much else on her mind.]

[A second later, she changes it.]


Actually, if you see Black Cat while you're out, let me know. His house was empty when I went to check on him. I can't find him anywhere.

[Not nearly the whole truth of the situation, but it's as much as she can explain.]
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[personal profile] coineater 2024-09-01 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
do trees cultivate?
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[personal profile] fragmentaryblue 2024-09-02 06:29 am (UTC)(link)
Did you expect to name yourself my liaison and not be put to work? You're very funny.

Anyway, if I offered the invitation to your lotus himself, he likely wouldn't even look at it. And for once, I'm not pestering him for my own entertainment. I imagine Gattino genuinely wants him there, so put a good effort into it please.
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[personal profile] coineater 2024-09-02 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[Huh. He appreciates that the 'why' was secondary.]

im not allowed to ask questions?
looking out my window at this tree this morning


[Flipping a little recipe card between his fingers.]

so whats the criteria?
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[personal profile] fragmentaryblue 2024-09-03 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you. If there's any way I can make the negotiations proceed more smoothly, do let me know. I'm willing to make some small concessions if it means that the event goes well.
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[personal profile] doctor_uhh 2024-09-03 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Delicate and restrained as that swipe is, a lack of retaliation would have tripped him up more. But of course Di Feisheng doesn't miss a step in this dance even in this shape, and with every move Li Lianhua gets to learn a little more of it. Miss Iris remains ignorant of how lucky she was. A private smirk crosses his lips at the thought, or possibly just at Di Feisheng and his surprising (delightful) tolerance of being pet in general, even while his eyes are locked on the prize.

And what a prize it is. He carefully examines the size and texture of the bones, taking note of the different knife marks and the tools used for drilling the holes and putting everything together. "Animal bones," he finally decides. In case anyone was curious. "Likely not her own kills, a butcher took these apart." So it's not the materials that matter to her, but the final product. "Expert work on the cleaning and bleaching, that would have taken a lot of effort... Only, I don't recall anyone in town offering that service." So her own work, and not the first time she's done it. Is that why she was so protective of it?

But there's obviously more to the damn thing, he heard that himself. He turns to pace a few steps away from the panther, lost in thought. She clearly didn't hide a little ghost in the pipes, so it must be something about the placement of the holes creating the words. But words are too numerous and complex to be made by singular holes... unless he rubs his lil fingies together it's made to speak a very different tongue. Of course a series of whistles and notes could carry meaning. And once there's meaning, whatever assures all the people here understand one another would do the rest.

It still takes great skill and precision to carve those holes and place the thing perfectly into the wind to assure those notes would be played more or less in the right order. Not unexpected of that woman, but certainly interesting. Should that be her own tongue, then? Or one of many she knows?

Why, still, put so much effort into making this? Just to see others react to it, maybe. To learn more about how languages work in this realm. Sentiment, if it is indeed her mother tongue? More sentiment, if she knows one person capable of understanding it without help.

Li Lianhua's expression sharpens into an unkind smile down at the instrument in his hands. "She's not done with you until she gets this back, you know." As if the attempted murder over a toy hadn't given that away already.

Oh well. With a shrug, he tosses the mess carelessly over his shoulder, high into the air and barely in the panther's general direction.
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[personal profile] coineater 2024-09-04 01:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[Cats wiggle when they don't want to be held. Cat does the same with words. Sorry about it, Sir Straightforward.

He's certainly wiggling on the inside at the word he most didn't want to see when it came to this. Time. Something none of them have.]


someone elses intent? what is that supposed to mean?
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[personal profile] coineater 2024-09-05 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
pardon?
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[personal profile] fragmentaryblue 2024-09-06 06:17 am (UTC)(link)
Ones I would consider small.

There won't be any fighting, rest assured. I won't ruin this for him.
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[personal profile] coineater 2024-09-08 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
[WHAT does that MEAN sir]

part of the deal!
but how about only when cultivation is involved haha

not a wild tree but this one might cultivate according to our sly friend
youre banned from fisticuffs with it though
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[personal profile] fragmentaryblue 2024-09-10 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
He could stand to be less cunning right now. Or more.

[Not enough to hide from her... or enough that she hadn't found him to begin with. She still isn't sure how that happened. She was barely conscious of her actions, and her memory of it is likewise blurry and fading. She only remembers teeth and fur, thorns and blood... And then very suddenly, him.]

[She really shouldn't say more than that right now. She just needs to focus on finding Cat. And Di Feisheng will have his own bundle to take care of. She shouldn't keep him.]


Thank you. For keeping an eye out. Take care.
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