I want that, and also I am grateful that you are sending it to me,
but how would Sanguis have had these devices? Wasn't everything from before
the Calamity destroyed?
He's doing as well as can be expected. Hearing that he died shocked him more than I thought it would.
[Yeah, no, that's... a pretty normal thing to get upset about, probably. Jin Ling had just underestimated his father's reaction, and he feels a bit bad for it.]
Not wrong, exactly, but if he's upset because he couldn't be there for you, it might be... something you will regret less later if you consider things a little less directly.
At least he probably would rather it never mentioned again, but yes - even though we'll all die one day, most people are at least a bit upset about their own death, for one reason or another.
Still... if that's the one not-fun thing, that's good, right?
[He's... just not sure how to talk about it all. He is very happy to have his father around - he's happy to have gotten a chance to see his father at all - but he also has no idea how to deal with it. Part of him wants to never leave his father's side, but that's exactly why he does.
You... know that you don't have to make the words bounce inside your mind only, yes? Finding family that you've never known as you know people know is - I mean, must be pretty...
That's fair. Maybe it's a good place to start? Learn more about each other. Not what other people have told you or haven't, but just - spend time around each other? Train together, that always helps...
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[Yeah, he's. Deliberately avoiding the point.]
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I want that, and also I am grateful that you are sending it to me, but how would Sanguis have had these devices? Wasn't everything from before the Calamity destroyed?
[ SOME THINGS DON'T ADD UP! ]
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Send it or don't send it, I don't care.
[He cares a little, on the off chance there's an actual curse involved. Still, even curses aren't inescapable.]
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Oh... all right. How are you feeling, now that Cordis has passed?
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Less hungry.
[Let's go with that.]
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Your father?
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Hearing that he died shocked him more than I thought it would.
[Yeah, no, that's... a pretty normal thing to get upset about, probably. Jin Ling had just underestimated his father's reaction, and he feels a bit bad for it.]
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Actually, I was kind of surprised. Death can happen to anybody at any time, right? There's no point in being shocked about your own.
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I hadn't thought of it that way.
[Not something he likes to admit, but it's still better than outright agreeing that he did something wrong.]
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Still... if that's the one not-fun thing, that's good, right?
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It's good.
[He's... just not sure how to talk about it all. He is very happy to have his father around - he's happy to have gotten a chance to see his father at all - but he also has no idea how to deal with it. Part of him wants to never leave his father's side, but that's exactly why he does.
He doesn't want to get too used to this.]
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Well. Messy.
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We just
Don't know each other.
Not the good things. Not the bad things, either.
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Training together is a good idea.
[That's pretty neutral. Useful, even.]
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Doesn't it? Do you think he's as good as you with the bow?
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Nobody's as good with the bow as me.
Well... I guess if anyone's as good, it would be him.
[Good archery genes!(?!)]
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Yes! I can't wait to hear what you think!
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Also: how is this suddenly a settled thing?! But... Jin Ling supposes he can live with that.]
I don't think he came here with a bow.
He won't be used to mine.
[It will be really weird if his dad turns out to suck at archery after all this talk, so this is his preemptive excuse.]
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You're right about that. Do you think someone here will be able to make a good bow by the New Year?
[ He means the Lunar one, of course. ]
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[That is a brilliant idea! Even though Jin Ling feels a little bad that he needed Sizhui to think of it for him.]
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