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Electric Sky #28, Vienna Orange #12: Bait, Hook, Nibble (Lin Moniao Series)
Name: Bait, Hook, Nibble
Story: Lin Moniao Series (AO3 link)
Colors: Electric Sky #28 (Only Constant Is Change), Vienna Orange #12 (Let your faith die, bring your wonder)
Supplies and Styles: frame, gesso, calendar page (23.4. Slay a Dragon Day), novelty beads ("Losing my Religion", REM), seed beads; embroidery, silhouette
Word Count: 338
Rating: teen
Warnings: One cuss, reference to murder.
Summary: Shui She and Hua Haoyu have a conversation while on one of their fishing outings.
Note: Takes place after the main story.
*
"They're not biting today."
"They might later. Patience."
"Hmh."
"..."
"So."
"Mm."
"I heard the sect leader asked if you wanted to be the new god of the Qilin Villa."
"Yeah, he did."
"I guess there's no point asking why I don't hear these things from you."
"Little Treasure. There wasn't anything to tell. I said no. Would you have liked me to tell you?"
"Yes! Tell me things, please. And I heard that too. I could have guessed. You always say no, or then that you'll think about it, and come back tomorrow. But you came here all on fire to be a god and now--you just don't want to anymore. What's up with that?"
"Mm. I don't suppose I wanted to be a god so much as I wanted to know what was happening. I knew I was becoming something. Ah, wait..."
"There--! Ah, almost. Better luck next time."
"So you see, they'll bite alright, if you wait long enough for it."
"You still haven't got a fish, though."
"Well. There's time."
"There's time, there's time, there's always time..."
"..."
"The clouds take such a long time to move across the sky. I'll turn into grass before that rain gets here."
"...Rain is good for fishing."
"What were you like before, then? When you were the legendary assassin, He Tian? What was--what was it like?"
"...You take the fish, you gut the fish, you go get another fish. It was trap-fishing mostly, I'd say. Camouflage and trickery, and then... a quick rock to the head until it stops wriggling."
"..."
"...I felt things I don't feel anymore, since I gained this blessing. Or I feel them--differently."
"I'm sorry I asked."
"..."
"Do you... You won't... you really won't... um. You don't want to... me?"
"..."
"You've gone quiet."
"..."
"Shui She, by Heaven, answer me, do you want to kill me?"
"I don't."
"Fuck! You could have just said that instead of scaring me like that."
"Hm. It gets to be a habit, you know."
"What does? Killing?"
"Camouflage."
Story: Lin Moniao Series (AO3 link)
Colors: Electric Sky #28 (Only Constant Is Change), Vienna Orange #12 (Let your faith die, bring your wonder)
Supplies and Styles: frame, gesso, calendar page (23.4. Slay a Dragon Day), novelty beads ("Losing my Religion", REM), seed beads; embroidery, silhouette
Word Count: 338
Rating: teen
Warnings: One cuss, reference to murder.
Summary: Shui She and Hua Haoyu have a conversation while on one of their fishing outings.
Note: Takes place after the main story.
*
"They're not biting today."
"They might later. Patience."
"Hmh."
"..."
"So."
"Mm."
"I heard the sect leader asked if you wanted to be the new god of the Qilin Villa."
"Yeah, he did."
"I guess there's no point asking why I don't hear these things from you."
"Little Treasure. There wasn't anything to tell. I said no. Would you have liked me to tell you?"
"Yes! Tell me things, please. And I heard that too. I could have guessed. You always say no, or then that you'll think about it, and come back tomorrow. But you came here all on fire to be a god and now--you just don't want to anymore. What's up with that?"
"Mm. I don't suppose I wanted to be a god so much as I wanted to know what was happening. I knew I was becoming something. Ah, wait..."
"There--! Ah, almost. Better luck next time."
"So you see, they'll bite alright, if you wait long enough for it."
"You still haven't got a fish, though."
"Well. There's time."
"There's time, there's time, there's always time..."
"..."
"The clouds take such a long time to move across the sky. I'll turn into grass before that rain gets here."
"...Rain is good for fishing."
"What were you like before, then? When you were the legendary assassin, He Tian? What was--what was it like?"
"...You take the fish, you gut the fish, you go get another fish. It was trap-fishing mostly, I'd say. Camouflage and trickery, and then... a quick rock to the head until it stops wriggling."
"..."
"...I felt things I don't feel anymore, since I gained this blessing. Or I feel them--differently."
"I'm sorry I asked."
"..."
"Do you... You won't... you really won't... um. You don't want to... me?"
"..."
"You've gone quiet."
"..."
"Shui She, by Heaven, answer me, do you want to kill me?"
"I don't."
"Fuck! You could have just said that instead of scaring me like that."
"Hm. It gets to be a habit, you know."
"What does? Killing?"
"Camouflage."
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