Communications Array work

[jiangzaid]

WHO: Xue Yang AND YOU
WHEN: End of March
WHAT: Experimenting with talismans
WHERE: Gazin
WARNINGS: N/A

For all of his experimenting and playing with talismans and the rest of what the cultivation world has to offer, and learning from his daozhangs, Xue Yang has a thought to make life a little better for his new adopted home.

Specifically, to find a way for people to communicate more than just in person. He knows there are ways for messages to be sent via talisman, but that only helps those who can use spiritual energy! Not everyone in Gazin can. Which sees him plopped down in various places working on runes before putting them down on talisman paper. Even if there are only set places such messages can be sent to or from, it would help speed up alarms.

His little black squirrel is curled up on a pile of leaves he'd found for her, Jiangzai is resting just beside him, and a knee keeps wiggling back and forth as he thinks over various successes or...when something burns instead of floating off.

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[jiangzaid]

They both give her puzzles to solve, keeping her active both physically and mentally. And rewarding her with little treats! Xue Yang also likes seeing that pride at a job well done, as well as feeling it for himself when he manages challenges in a more positive way than before.

He trusts that strength and loyalty now, more than he's ever trusted anything before. He's no longer alone, and that has done wonders for him. Even the guilt he feels at having hurt his poor daozhangs so badly in the past can't eclipse his love for them, and his determination to make them happy now.

He laughs with delight but only tightens his embrace and claims a soft kiss. "Of course I know." He nuzzles his love, unrepentant in this teasing if only because he knows Zichen doesn't actually mind how they start many days.

But he sobers, softening. "It's the waking up beside you that I love most."

[zichen]

She lifts herself up on her back feet and fluffs her tail so proudly that even Zichen has a difficult time denying her anything. He has wondered if she is learning to be charming from Xue Yang? If so, he is doomed to be a slave to her whims.

Not that he will ever complain, mind you.

As for their guilt... The fact that his A-Yang can feel it, well, that's all Zichen wants from him. It means his beloved understands what he did and how much he hurt them...and others too. They can't stay in that place and he refuses to blame Xue Yang endlessly for things he can't change.

Instead he wants to love him and lift him away from the murky water, the darkness. He wants his A-Yang to see the light that makes those like Xiao Xingchen so sweet and forgiving.

"I'm glad you haven't forgotten." he replies gruffly, tilting his head to enjoy the nuzzling, "Really?" his voice shakes and he swallows against it, "Your face is so soft when you're sleepy."