[he's holding his fan like a shield as he usually does when distressed, so like. that's closest, tbh. i'm gonna assume wrist in that case unless she does legit grab the fan i don't know her life or her choices]
But that isn't possible, no one can be brought fully back to life!
[okay he super wasn't expecting that from her, actually, distracted by the subject matter-- so here's the thing. he yelps and tries to pull it back before she grabs it...
annnd it's going to cut her hand. it doesn't look sharp, but that just might be intentional. sure feels more solid than it looks on first glance!
he's not going to catch most of that answer because he's busy INTERNALLY PANICKING.]
Miss Beau-! I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, I really didn't expect...
[he snaps the fan shut, quickly digging for a cloth or something, if the closet provided him extra fans i don't think fancy hankies are out of the question?? nie huaisang offers it out to her to stem the bleeding, peering at her hand with concern.]
Ah- it's a respectful way to refer to a practitioner! Usually someone more like a priest, but I'm not really sure what else we would call you... besides Miss Beau, that is.
[so she might be stuck with it!]
And yes, we've always used them. The founder of the QingheNie Sect was a butcher, so sabers suited the methods he established better than a double-sided blade did.
What? [ THAT'S THE COOLEST THING SHE'S EVER HEARD?? ] No! There's like - flying brooms, but not swords, what the fuck! That's awesome! How do you do it?
I don't usually use swords, so I don't know. Maybe they do? I don't think... Yasha's does... Fjord can summon his out of nowhere.
[ it takes her a second, and then: ] Oh. No, Caleb - all of them are part of the Mighty Nein, which is the group I'm a part of. We kinda do mercenary work?
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But that isn't possible, no one can be brought fully back to life!
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Yeah. Yeah, they can. There's a spell. It's expensive, but I know that Jester knows it, and I can figure it out. It can't be that hard.
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annnd it's going to cut her hand. it doesn't look sharp, but that just might be intentional. sure feels more solid than it looks on first glance!
he's not going to catch most of that answer because he's busy INTERNALLY PANICKING.]
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[ ow!! her hand!! okay, well - if she wasn't bleeding before, she is now, wtf. ]
The fuck is that thing made of?!
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[he snaps the fan shut, quickly digging for a cloth or something, if the closet provided him extra fans i don't think fancy hankies are out of the question?? nie huaisang offers it out to her to stem the bleeding, peering at her hand with concern.]
Are you all right? It's not too deep?
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Fuck. No, I should know better than to just reach out and grab shit. Fucking - I didn't know you had it in you.
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[his only advantage with it is basically what she just demonstrated: nobody expects it to be dangerous.]
But I could never wield my saber properly either, and my cultivation isn't powerful enough to defend myself with.
[leaving him with a hidden weapon as the only real line of self-defense.]
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Your cultivation, huh. Like Jin Ling's, right?
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[she GRABBED IT don't put this on him, he's too delicate to bear the guilt of it!!
the question gets a nod, though.]
...it's like young master Jin's though, yes. Our Sects have different practices, but the core of it is more or less the same across all of them.
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Yeah. He told me about it a bit - I have something kind of similar to it? Except I call it ki, and it's for punching.
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[...haha but let's not get on that subject. he half-perked up at that mention and then immediately deflated again, actually.]
-Normally we use blades, though. Swords for the other Great Sects, and mine has always used sabers.
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Sabers, huh. Jin Ling was curious about it, he called me... fuck, what was it. Daozhang?
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[so she might be stuck with it!]
And yes, we've always used them. The founder of the QingheNie Sect was a butcher, so sabers suited the methods he established better than a double-sided blade did.
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[ also, as for that last bit of info, she squints. ]
A - butcher? Like actually, or in a derogatory way?
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[he shakes his head quickly, waving his fan along with the motion.]
Though his methods were fairly... violent, compared to the others... the sabers' fighting style made it necessary.
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I don't like swords. It's too easy to kill people with them.
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[because he's a weenie, god. he blinks over at her, though-]
Is it... is it killing at all that you don't like? Or just doing it thoughtlessly?
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[ -- hol up ] Wait, flying?
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[he'll return to the like, actual serious part of this in a minute, because he just looks confused.]
It's one of the most basic things we learn, as cultivators, so if you use something similar then I thought...
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[he sort of. pantomimes standing on something sort of like it's a skateboard, standing as straight as he can manage.]
Well, you do have to make sure you leave the flat of the blade up and not the edge, but you eventually get used to balancing.
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Fuuuck. I wonder if Caleb could make a sword do that for me. [ she says, totally amazed. ]
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[what kind of crappy normal swords do y'all have! damn! also!!:]
Is that a smith you know?
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[ it takes her a second, and then: ] Oh. No, Caleb - all of them are part of the Mighty Nein, which is the group I'm a part of. We kinda do mercenary work?
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[he doesn't sound like he disapproves, just... curious.]