homophonic ❆ nahri

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nahri

You're not just a memory.

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[she glances up at nahri from where she's sitting, smiling a little.]

It is a lot nicer. [...] You'd like it.

[and then, after a moment, as she tucks her hair behind her ear:] I think I'd like to kiss you again, too.

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[ her face lights up red, but she doesn't shy away. ]

Then you better hurry up and get back on this side.

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[HUFFS. she gives nahri a look that could be described as pouting.]

I've been trying.

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[ she giggles. ]

I don't doubt it. [ softer, this time: ] I've really missed you, Shenhe. The boys don't like holding hands like you do. [ a beat. ] I don't think they'd be as nice to kiss, either.

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[it doesn't matter because they still can't touch, but she moves a little closer. nahri can probably see her disgruntledly push something aside as she comes closer, like something on her side is in the way.]

Vash would be awful to kiss. [no comment on wolfwood though she's not touching that one] I've missed you just as much.

The people on this side don't hesitate to touch. I have never wanted you to die, but you would have liked it here.

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[ yeah there's an entire dimension in the way babe ]

Of course I would have. You're there.

[ a beat, and, more awkwardly: ] It seems as though anyone who'd hold my hand has died, except for Eiden. Maybe the problem is me.

[ it's supposed to be a joke but it is a bad one. ]

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[she looks disgruntled at that.]

If that is a joke it's a bad one. [she has also gotten better at telling things are jokes. this is probably fei du's doing because nothing that comes out of that man's mouth is serious]

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[ nahri and fei du's gremlin to gremlin communication... ]

It is the truth. You, Fei Du, Wenzhou, Yuzuriha, Netzach... Wolfwood, if I forced him to.

[ week 5 is really the only outlier where someone from the handhold brigade didn't die, but that's also the week she suffered cyoa, so maybe that's fine. ]

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[she has heard much about the gremlin communication... she's also been introduced to the duck.]

That is half of the game. [it's not but shenhe is like YOUR SAMPLE SIZE IS SKEWED] It isn't your fault.

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[ ah yes, the duck that they are co-parenting except this custody agreement is WACK. ]

Maybe not directly, but it is a little offputting that everyone started dying when I got close to them.

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... I felt that way when Fei Du died. [...] Though I was more angry he couldn't stay alive more than a couple of days without me to make sure he didn't eat dirt.

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Look at it this way, now you can babysit him all the time. [ :) ]

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[she

lays down on the floor

this is a curse. you have cursed her.]

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[ this inspires her to also lay down, but she is laying on her stomach, hand propping up her chin. ]

It's not that bad.

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You did not see him when Wenzhou died.

[this is a little bit more serious than the conversation really calls for but. it's on her mind.]

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...No. I didn't.

[ there's no snappy comeback for that, nor would she even want to say it. ]

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He's alright, now.

[a pause.]

You should be glad you were not here Sunday, either. [:nyeh:]

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Yeah, I can... imagine.

[ hm. ]

But I talked to both of them today. So I'm glad he's doing better.

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[that was a fun thing, with wolfwood and kyoko

but also she's talking about how she was sexiled from the room she was staying in with fei du so there's varying levels of hm, here.]

... He scared me. [she says, after a moment, from where she's still on the floor.] On Friday.

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[ this tag was a rollercoaster. ]

Scared you... how...?

[ she is reluctant to ask, but her nosiness can't be stopped. she's seen fei du in acute amounts of distress, but not 'the man i love got blown up' amounts of distress. ]

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[insert anna's smug cat emote here]

I had to stop him from trying to shock himself to death. [she says flatly.]

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[ the first thing that springs to her mind is: shenhe had been killed again to unburden herself from the agony of dealing what was at hand. fei du shouldn't have done that to himself - and nahri also would have intervened, had seen been there - but there's still a part of that feels like maybe he deserves a little mercy. it's complicated. of course she does not speak these thoughts aloud, but there's a bit of a pause before she responds. ]

I'm glad you were there to stop him.

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[she feels complicated about it too. it may have been kinder to let him die, but she's not entirely sure she would've been able to live with herself if she had. it wasn't working anyway. he was using his own electricity, so he was immune to it.

she sighs.]

Yes. I am very tired, so it's good that Wenzhou can wrangle him now. [she loves him to death, but she is really just a simple bird.]

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Hm. When you come back, you can take a nap in your eggbed. Get some rest.

[ but man, she is also feeling that tiredness. that sort of weariness in your bones. ]

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[HER EGGBED]

I bought that bed and then barely got to use it. [she died with like sixty bucks on her she could've used that for gacha pulls] I miss our warehouse.