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[daozhangs]

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[daozhangs]

"This sounds like a challenge to cause a fuss!"

[legbreakings]

You're twisting my words now!

[daozhangs]

I'm quoting your words, verbatim, with no further comment.

[legbreakings]

Twisting my words, like I said!

[daozhangs]

It was a lovely gift.

[legbreakings]

Stop trying to cheat with niceness!

[daozhangs]

I'll be nice to you whenever I please and there's very little you can do about it.

You've done this to yourself, you know.

[legbreakings]

I'm fully aware of that but it has yet to kep me from being outraged. You should know that much about me by now.

[daozhangs]

I also know how it is that you feel about gifting and whatnot, so please know that I do mean it. It's a thoughtful gift. I'm delighted to receive it.

You'll help me plant them?

[legbreakings]

If you wish for my help I wouldn't mind giving it.

Although you should know I have no talent for gardening.

[daozhangs]

What a coincidence - neither do I.

[legbreakings]

In conclusion: the plants are doomed.

[daozhangs]

So little faith in us.

[legbreakings]

You haven't seen me with a shovel yet.

[daozhangs]

It's quite difficult to do so now, I'm afraid.

[legbreakings]

First gardening, now terrible puns. The things I put up with.

[daozhangs]

As if you wouldn't have said the same.

[legbreakings]

All the more reason you shouldn't follow my example.

[ Gosh, don't you know he works hard to be coarse and mean and unrefined, Xingchen! ]

[daozhangs]

I'd like to think that it amuses you.

[legbreakings]

It does.

[daozhangs]

I'm glad.

( after a few moments, )

I think the garden will be fine. It's inevitable that we manage to keep something alive, and a few-dozen plants seem like our simplest bet.

[legbreakings]

I'll have you know I managed to raise a child just fine. But children are easier to keep alive than plants. They scream when they are hungry.

[daozhangs]

I didn't know that you had a child.

( as far as he'd heard, sect leader jiang was still unmarried, let alone a father - but news travels quite slowly in such a remote place as yi city, and he died a number of years before jiang wanyin was drawn here. he was once the older of the two of them, after all, even if just by a year or so. by his estimate, he's missing something like a decade. )

I have no doubt that you raised him quite well.

And perhaps we shouldn't underestimate the manner of plants which this realm has to offer.

[legbreakings]

Not my child. I have no children or wife. But I tried to help as much as I could in seeing that my sister's son was raised a proper man and not some gold-breasted peacock.

He has grown into a fine young man. I should be at his side now as he faces the greatest challenges of his life but he would understand why I need to stay and deal with the Fog God here in Ryslig before she becomes a danger to all of us. I did teach him well.

I'm convinced the plants in the forest I had to cross tried to kill me. That forest is corrupted with resentment, or rather the local counterpart of it.

[daozhangs]

( ah. yes, that does make quite a bit of sense, falling a bit more in line with that which he had heard. )

Resentment?

Is it something we should investigate?

( no offense intended to jiang wanyin or his nephew, but his cultivator senses are tingling. )