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November Catch-All
⌛ Who: Lan Xichen and ota
⌛ What: November shenanigans
⌛ When: November
⌛ Where: All over
⌛ Warnings: Any that crop up will go into a thread's subject line as needed. Otherwise nothing!
Dragon
In various parks, or flying overhead some evenings or early morning, there can be seen a white dragon with silver and black scales and hair dotting the sinewy spine. Elegant. Slender. Slipping through the air or water - even playing, sometimes. Other times, it's down on the ground, curled up for a noon nap.
Clinic
At least by helping out around various clinics, Xichen feels he can give good care. Especially with those who prefer less of the 'modern' medicine that he doesn't fully trust. He's not hurting for patients, either!
Checking in on people
Chances are, if someone knows Lan Xichen, they can expect a visit from him. Bringing them tea, or medicine depending on their relation or needs. And music may well follow in addition. The later in the month the visit is, the more white scales creep up his neck and the sides of his face, leading into delicate horns that also grow a little more each day.
Wildcard! If you want to have a scene with Xichen, here's your prompt! Or message me here, or![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
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⌛ What: November shenanigans
⌛ When: November
⌛ Where: All over
⌛ Warnings: Any that crop up will go into a thread's subject line as needed. Otherwise nothing!
Dragon
In various parks, or flying overhead some evenings or early morning, there can be seen a white dragon with silver and black scales and hair dotting the sinewy spine. Elegant. Slender. Slipping through the air or water - even playing, sometimes. Other times, it's down on the ground, curled up for a noon nap.
Clinic
At least by helping out around various clinics, Xichen feels he can give good care. Especially with those who prefer less of the 'modern' medicine that he doesn't fully trust. He's not hurting for patients, either!
Checking in on people
Chances are, if someone knows Lan Xichen, they can expect a visit from him. Bringing them tea, or medicine depending on their relation or needs. And music may well follow in addition. The later in the month the visit is, the more white scales creep up his neck and the sides of his face, leading into delicate horns that also grow a little more each day.
Wildcard! If you want to have a scene with Xichen, here's your prompt! Or message me here, or
Checking In
"Zewu-Jun." If she does note anything different about him, she doesn't comment on it.
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"Lady Jiang. Are you well?" He carries the basket with a thermos (which he's learned to appreciate) and two cups.
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"Better than you first initially saw me, yes. How have you been doing?"
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"I am pleased to hear that. I brought some tea, if you would do me the honor of sharing it with me?"
He smiles gently at the answering query and nods a little. "I have been well, thank you."
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She gives him a small smile and stands from where she'd been sitting in the garden. Though, she doubts that the elder Jade would care where it was they sat for tea.
"Do you wish to stay out here or go inside?"
Yanli would give him that option, at least, before needing to go clean up a little.
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"It would be a shame to waste such a beautiful day, and you have been working hard out here. If I may, I would like to stay out here."
Checking in + wildcard
Now, they're having tea.
"Er ge... I need your help with something."
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He still has no idea what his future brings. So far, those who know have done their very best to protect him from it.
Now though, sitting and having tea with his beloved Mingjue's brother, and those words are used, he gently sets his cup down and turns his attention to the other man.
"How can I help you?"
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"I want to start a business but I need some help."
He could probably do it alone but it's so much easier to get people to do some of the work for you isn't it?
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These are things that flicker through his mind as he waits for his beloved's brother to speak his mind. What comes out surprises him. He relaxes a little, and smiles gently.
"I think you would do very well with one. What did you have in mind to do?"
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Xichen doesn't fidget, or reach for his tea as he thinks. He simply considers the possible issues, silently, then sets it aside. "And how do you propose I help?"
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"I don't really know how one starts such a thing...and I thought you might be better suited for helping me figure out than me," he says -- in other words, he wants to delegate the logistics and stuff he finds boring onto someone else.
Checking in
It was good to keep up with the tradition, he thought. It kept the connection of home close to him. But Jiang Cheng had another reason for this interaction and he couldn't kept the anxiety completely from his face.
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The longer he's here though, the more he has the feeling there are things people haven't told him. That perhaps he should know. Perhaps one of them is what has Jiang Cheng so uneasy? He won't know until the younger man speaks.
But that anxiety...Xichen gently sets his cup down, folds his hands in his lap and gives his complete attention to the other man. "What is troubling you so?" A nudge, quietly spoken to encourage calm.
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Shit, this sounded...it sounded bad, even to his own ears! He could feel his face flush. "I heard someone comment something about me. About spots." He couldn't bear to look Xichen in the face as he spoke. "I ... didn't hear it well, but I thought I heard Lepresy." Which. Well. It was bad! And this time, he looked up.
"I can't manage to turn and see for myself, though." And to be honest, didn't want to look in a mirror, either. And even if he had, that wouldn't change the fact that he was diseased and now his body parts were going to fall off!
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He can't blame the younger man for not wanting to look in a mirror to see for himself. But a moment's thought - this isn't something to respond to hastily, another possibility occurs to him and his gaze drops as he internally pokes at it. He has his own physical changes, after all.
"Thank you for trusting me with this. May I examine you? It may be an illness, or it could be the magic of this world."
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"Yes, of course." Being the magic of this world...was that not a little like leprosy anyway? What were the long-term effects of this place, anyway? Was everyone eventually going to turn into an animal of some sort? And then what happened? Did everyone lose their human minds and succumb to the animal they became? That was just as terrifying as the wasting disease, he thought. He didn't want to lose his sense of self.
The thought was sobering as he finished his tea and waited for directions on where he should go for this exam.
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"Other than the spots you were told about, have there been other changes since coming here?"
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What if Wen Qing suddenly showed up? How could he manage to exist then? How could he balance the feelings of two, one recognized and most recently indulged upon and the other still a wisp of aged regret and a puff of dream?
"Not...anything I think is directly pertaining to this." Cheng readily offered his wrist, used to examinations and doctoring. Discussing emotions was a completely different thing he would rather not be forced to contemplate.
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But nothing is said, and so Xichen has to rely on what he sees and has gathered from this world. He nods, accepting the decision and bends to his examination. Resting fingers against the other's pulse, he checks energy levels, qi, the strength of the other's heart beat. Studies his breath, then slowly pulls back.
"May I look at these spots?"
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