necrotiem | Week 4 Curfew

[ oh hey dead mom hi-five ]

[jesus christ did he actually hi-five her]

[ yeah he sure did ]

[In that case, though she's clearly not used to the gesture, she gets the drift, and meets him for it.]

How long ago? Both of mine passed when I was five.

You were so young! That must have been a difficult adjustment.

For me, it wasn't that long ago... it would have been just before I officially joined the Blue Foxes. [Which, pretend I put a number down here, it would have probably been between 1 and 4 years? I don't think the timeline is precise.] In truth, we were not close.

Hm… I was on the streets until I was nine, so I didn’t have to think about it much.

[ ANYWAY. Moving on from that little bomb… ]

It must be harder in some ways to have not been close, though I imagine that makes their absence easier to bear.

[In its own way, that's quite the adjustment, isn't it? To be such a young child and fall so hard? Yet it must have also been difficult to have any particularly complex thoughts on the matter, boiled down to just trying to survey.

She won't make this awkward by being overly nosy or sympathetic.]

What's done is done. That's how I see it. I'm always thinking about what I want to reach next... I think that's helpful, for how I move about life.

[ He really likes that she doesn't dwell on it. Honestly, Wei Wuxian was right to have a high opinion of her. ]

I feel similarly. It's always best to look ahead rather than dwell on things that you can no longer change.

[When Wei Wuxian does it, it's character building and empathetic, but when Quin does it it's weird and she probably killed her family. God forbid women do anything!]

Precisely. Why would I spend more time dwelling on what I don't have than figuring out how to get what I want? That's only logical.

[ Let women have hobbies! ]

That it is. For the same reason, I don't regret any of the choices I've made. After all, they're my choices.

Hahaha, you've a bold personality. I'd glad I wasn't wrong.

To live without regrets is hypothetically the ideal existence. Sometimes there are things we are simply compelled to do by our positions, but I think I'll have to keep living freely.

Living freely is all I’ve ever done. I don’t think I could do anything else.

[ But that of course comes with its own set of consequences. ]

You and I are really similar in many ways, aren’t we?

Hahaha, do you think so? [She leans on the arm of her theater chair. The laugh dies with a soft exhale. She's thought the same before.] Psyche says I'm much like a friend of hers, to boot. It's difficult to deny the similarities.

The essential differences, I'm sure, will reveal themselves with time.

Oh, I'm sure.

[ But he grins. Their similarities are pretty big, so it's hard to really say what those differences could be. ]

You know, though... Psyche said I reminded her of a friend too.

Did she, now? [She lifts her head a little bit so she can divert her gaze over in Psyche's direction for a moment.] Do you suppose it was the same one? She said I'd quite like this girl, if I met her.

[ He looks over at Psyche too, his gaze lingering for just a bit before he looks back over at Waltaquin. ]

Did you get the name of her friend? It might be the same one, because she said the same thing.

I might have, but should I say? I'm starting to feel a smidgen offended.

[ Why does she feel like she did something wrong... What if Psyche simply sinks a little in her seat and pretends not to hear any part of this? Good strategy. ]

[Is it?

Psyche moved, which of course will draw a little bit of attention.] You should tell us more while you have us both as your captive audience!

[ It's like wiggling a toy in front of a cat... ]

Well, the two of you are a little alike... but you're both like her in very different ways?

[Like, nya.

She looks to Wei Wuxian and then back to Psyche.]

This has really piqued my interest... the more I learn about this girl, the more intrigued I am!

Actually, if she resembles the both of us, she must be quite dangerous.

Think I’m not good enough to be compared to you indirectly? Hahahaha!

Hahahaha! Why not? Can't we be compared directly enough already?

I just think we may find we've been manipulated this whole time... what do you think?

[ He laughs. ]

Hmmm. I wouldn’t mind being manipulated by her.

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