Ah, and he has an answer, which has the line of his shoulders relaxing even if he continues to frown. Hearing all this had been some messed up test of skill and now suspicious activity, yeah, who would have thought?
"Thank you, Yi-qianbei, Er-qianbei," he says. He can be gracious when provided an answer to something he asked, and their statement of intent is also answering part of what he'd asked earlier. Reasonableness was possible, one way or another.
His fur stands some on end when his name is completely parroted back to him, partly because while he'd gone for full formal as a sort of look I can play nice what about you gesture, it was disturbing to hear his childhood name. "Lan Jingyi," he says, not hiding his full body shudder to shake off the sound of anyone calling him Lan Zhi. "By custom it would be most proper."
A pause.
"Unless we were particularly close, and then you'd probably be calling me San Lan." Third Lan, such as it was.
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"Thank you, Yi-qianbei, Er-qianbei," he says. He can be gracious when provided an answer to something he asked, and their statement of intent is also answering part of what he'd asked earlier. Reasonableness was possible, one way or another.
His fur stands some on end when his name is completely parroted back to him, partly because while he'd gone for full formal as a sort of look I can play nice what about you gesture, it was disturbing to hear his childhood name. "Lan Jingyi," he says, not hiding his full body shudder to shake off the sound of anyone calling him Lan Zhi. "By custom it would be most proper."
A pause.
"Unless we were particularly close, and then you'd probably be calling me San Lan." Third Lan, such as it was.