Luo Binghe flashes his most charming smile to Astarion. It's second nature at this point, and he even manages to make it look sincere.
"I suppose I am," he muses, looking for all the world like a man relaxed and at home. But truthfully? His mind is running a million miles a minute. There is a foreign object in him that's resistant to the blood parasites. That's not a good thing, not by any stretch of the imagination. For now, however, it seems to be dormant.
But what was the thing that put it there? And why?
"It was this humble cultivator's pleasure," he says to the other cultivator, eyes scouring the skies for any sign of anyone he might recognize. Given where they are, and which way the ship was going when it crashed down, they would have sailed right over Huan Hua Palace. Yingying, Hualing, and Mingyan will surely be at the head of an investigatory entourage, and though they are his most trusted wives and generals, even they cannot be allowed to meet him in this state. Yingying alone has enough reason to slit his throat, however much she pretends otherwise.
He leads them into the shrouded depths of Bailu Forest, following a stream that will lead to the road along the river that should take them to the town at the foot of Bailu Mountain.
"Perhaps we should introduce ourselves, given that fate has flung us together? This humble one is Liu Feiyu. It is a pleasure to make your acquaintances."
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"I suppose I am," he muses, looking for all the world like a man relaxed and at home. But truthfully? His mind is running a million miles a minute. There is a foreign object in him that's resistant to the blood parasites. That's not a good thing, not by any stretch of the imagination. For now, however, it seems to be dormant.
But what was the thing that put it there? And why?
"It was this humble cultivator's pleasure," he says to the other cultivator, eyes scouring the skies for any sign of anyone he might recognize. Given where they are, and which way the ship was going when it crashed down, they would have sailed right over Huan Hua Palace. Yingying, Hualing, and Mingyan will surely be at the head of an investigatory entourage, and though they are his most trusted wives and generals, even they cannot be allowed to meet him in this state. Yingying alone has enough reason to slit his throat, however much she pretends otherwise.
He leads them into the shrouded depths of Bailu Forest, following a stream that will lead to the road along the river that should take them to the town at the foot of Bailu Mountain.
"Perhaps we should introduce ourselves, given that fate has flung us together? This humble one is Liu Feiyu. It is a pleasure to make your acquaintances."