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[lifeban]

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10:55 am

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"This is Dan Heng. Please text rather than calling."

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[eggshell]

He can’t protect you for long. For creatures like us, who have that legacy, nobody can.

Re: Day 4

[lionsleeps]

Miss Megumi has also insisted I be open with you if not the team at large.

[There's a long pause, where Jing Yuan presses his face into his bedroom floor and groans.]

But you should know first that despite my carefully crafted exterior, I am timorous by nature and the list of things that trouble me could wrap around the Luofu approximately ten thousand times.

[lifeban]

I will behave so long as you do.

I am living in the present, and as myself. You'll have to be more specific about legacies.

1/???

[lifeban]

That makes sense.

2/it'll be a lot

[lifeban]

[another pause. shit was that too fast?]

That isn't to say that your mask isn't effective. I only have reasons to pay attention to you as a man as well as you as an Arbiter-General.

3/???

[lifeban]

[staring at his own texts like fuck is he shoving his foot in his mouth? he doesn't want to make jing yuan feel like he isn't GOOD at what he does, because he is, it's just. highly specific focus and insight.]

I wouldn't ask you to tell me everything. Even ignoring situations like those with classified or private information.

4/??

[lifeban]

[sorry about the wall of messages he's feeling awkward. they just keep coming.]

I am not disinterested in insight into the Luofu and its workings, but that is not my goal.

5/7? maybe 7?

[lifeban]

Rather, I am interested in it in its own right but mostly, in this context, through the impact the ship has had on you.

6/8

[lifeban]

But I don't want to quiz you or anything. I'm not trying to ask you to tell me a lot, or bare it all.

7/8

[lifeban]

I want to be here for you.

8/8 i think dw rate limited my ass

[lifeban]

I am going to stop spamming you now.

[lionsleeps]

[Over the course of these messages, Jing Yuan goes from miserably sulking into his floorboards to smiling fondly at his phone, feeling delightfully warm and fuzzy.

Dan Heng is so cute. He never expected to be granted this sort of pure, fumbling romance in his old age. Or ever. He's got to cherish it as long as he can.]

Thank you.

I cannot put into words how charmingly adorable I find you right now.

[lifeban]

I'm relieved it was cute for you and not just as embarrassing as it was for me.

[lionsleeps]

I'm imagining your pouting face, and I enjoy it very much.

[lifeban]

I'm not pouting.

[he is pouting.]

[lionsleeps]

Sure 😽

[lifeban]

[sends him a selfie with a very neutral face (he is still pouting. the vibes are there.)]

[lionsleeps]

A cute pout indeed!

[He sends a selfie back, making that one-handed thumb/finger heart gesture and winking with utmost smugness.]

[lifeban]

[another selfie back with the same gesture. he is in fact much less pouty having received cute lion pics.]

How have you lived this long without your bad vision coming to light?

[lionsleeps]

[ehe, more dragon pics for lion]

A better question would be how you thought your subtle expressions could sneak by the Divine Foresight.

[lifeban]

Oh.

[sorry he's having some kind of feelings there.

given he has the self awareness to KNOW he has a face that doesn't show his feelings well even when he isn't trying to hide them.]

[lionsleeps]

Is that a good "oh" or a bad "oh"?

[lifeban]

Good.

[lionsleeps]

Good 💗

[lifeban]

💗