He leans closer, scribbling notes in his haphazard calligraphy as she speaks. Every one of Wei Wuxian's teachers would be dumbfounded by the earnest, eager young man who's replaced him -- but it is still such a novelty to be student and peer both, learning something interesting, something familiar enough to hook his attention and different enough to hold it firm. This is not the Ninth House's necromancy, either, with its head-spinning minutiae that relies so much on the physical. They do bones. Wei Wuxian does spirits, and so does Abigail Pent.
"That is more complex than the workings I know," he says. "But it would have to be, to call an individual spirit! Here -- " He pulls the bamboo flute free of his belt to lay on the table. "I am ready, should anything follow. I will only need this."
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Date: 2020-10-28 01:40 am (UTC)He leans closer, scribbling notes in his haphazard calligraphy as she speaks. Every one of Wei Wuxian's teachers would be dumbfounded by the earnest, eager young man who's replaced him -- but it is still such a novelty to be student and peer both, learning something interesting, something familiar enough to hook his attention and different enough to hold it firm. This is not the Ninth House's necromancy, either, with its head-spinning minutiae that relies so much on the physical. They do bones. Wei Wuxian does spirits, and so does Abigail Pent.
"That is more complex than the workings I know," he says. "But it would have to be, to call an individual spirit! Here -- " He pulls the bamboo flute free of his belt to lay on the table. "I am ready, should anything follow. I will only need this."