[Jin Ling rings the bell and soon he'll hear another bell jingling as Peach approaches. This is Wednesday, it means she's dressed in her teacher outfit with black cat-eye glasses instead of her uniform and she's...straight-up crawling past the bed to look into the room.]
[WAH. She gets a poke in, but he reaches up quickly to swat her hand away, leaning his head back by the shoulders. And looking a little offended.]
It can't be lipstick. I'm not putting lipstick on my forehead. It's important. It's a vermilion mark, and it means to "open the door to wisdom and aspiration." Like enlightenment. It can't be anything stupid. We use saffron powder sometimes.
Also. [He puffs up a bit.] Can you make people have dreams? And can you give me Spirit Grass?
[There's a pout when she draws her hand back. Wow???]
It wasn't gonna be lipstick! Do you know people who put lipstick on their forehead? That seems like a waste. [But she's listening and nodding along....]
I don't know who's in charge of dreams, but...[...spirit grass? ...weed? Peach looks puzzled...] I think we have some in the garden! Have you been outside yet? [...a glance at the bed in the door.] Can you get outside?
[Because Ayabe is a stupid modern boy, but listen. Jin Ling has to make sure Peach is on the same page as him.] The garden...? I-- [He follows her look to the door.]
I can get out fine. I've been get--Ayabe is the one who made us come in here! I don't know why. He's just stupid.
[Wait. Being in a such a rush to get saffron, he only just now realizes he's standing alone... in a room... with a girl... with his shirt open. He turns beet red suddenly in the face and snaps the shirt closed before hastily trying to do up the buttons.]
A-anyway! I need saffron more importantly! For my mark. And I want to make Carbide Ash see what my world looks like so he will stop saying it isn't real!
I think that's just how Ayabe is, sir. [She sounds amused even when Jin Ling says that Ayabe's stupid. She's about to comment further when...he blushes? And immediately tries to redress. Don't mind her, she's just hanging out here, tail swishing mischievously.]
I can get you a tiny bit of saffron for your mark. You'll have to preserve it though! [...hm.] I don't know what we can do about dreams though. People don't really have control over those, do they? Why not just draw him pictures or something?
Fine! It doesn't have to be a lot. I'm only putting my vermilion mark on again. [He glances up, but then quickly looks down again so he can find the hole for the last button.] No, he wouldn't believe me even if I drew it.
[Would Ash believe a dream? Damn... It'd at least be more real than a drawing.]
[You said that about Hiza and I don't believe anything anymore.]
Of course. I'll deliver it right away. [True to her word, she will leave behind a little saffron for him in a bitty pot.] Why is it so important that he believes you? Do others believe the things you've said?
Yay, his saffron! Now he can be a stupid family-oriented cultivator in peace.]
Everyone here sounds insane. They keep talking about āother worlds,ā but there isnāt such a thing! There is one world, and Heaven, and the Yellow Spring! He thinks Iām stupid for not just trusting everyone, and thenā
ātried to turn it around in me! Iām going to prove to him Iām not lying!
[Hmmm...she's starting to realize a lot of people straight-up don't realize there really are other worlds, so she's going to pause to think of how to explain this.]
If there's really one world, where do you think you are right now? And how do you explain the things that everyone else has experienced? [She'll get back to Ash being mean in a second.]
[Jin Ling rings the bell in front of the Master bedroom and...the door swings open? It's a little dark inside, but it seems as though there's something of a living room/guest area that he's entering. He can't quite see yet, but soon he'll hear a soft, echo-y voice as chills run up his spine.]
[WOW, he is not a fan of the chill up the spine. He's a little apprehensive about going in after being forced to show up with next to nothing (unamused) BEAU...
But he's a peacock for a reason, so he charges inside in a march, tail wide and open to make himself look a lot bigger.]
[Oh my god I opened this on my ipad and forgot to reply. Anyway, so Jin Ling enters the room, and after a few moments the lights flicker on to reveal the interior. However, there doesn't seem to be anyone there?]
...rude. [The same echo-y tone is there, but...hm.]
[The light coming on startles him, so he owlishly blinks at the... room...? he didnāt expect to see. Like the aesthetic feels all off compared to the rest of the house.
[He looksāsurprised? Why would Blue not come out, dammit!]
Why are you hiding?! Are you playing favorites?! Then why is there all this talk about working together! Are you saying something is wrong with me?! Are you too good to come and see me?!
[WOW. He tries to growl under his breath, but it comes out more as a birdish, sort of squawking hiccup.
He spins in a small circle to look around again, and then he just....... collapses gently onto the floor where he's standing, legs crossed. Reaching up, he unwinds the purple bell out of the band of his ponytail. And then he sits with it in held in one palm, arms resting on his legs, eyes closed.
[...well after a while of sitting in silence, he'll hear a rustle from behind him as something crawls out from under the bed. Next time he opens his eyes, he'll be greeted by a figure who stares at him warily.
[He squeezes his eyes shut when he hears the noise. Very, very slowly... he... peels open one eye. And then whatever that is scares the piss out of him.
He doesn't Homer scream so much as make a very uuhHHUHUH noise and fall over backward into the pile of his now fanned out tail, dropping the Jiang bell on the floor.]
He rolls hastily over onto his hands and knees like he thinks it's going to fly back out and attack him. He waits, eyeing the bell lying between him and the bed on the floor.
Very slowly, he reaches out and snatches it back.]
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W1, WEDNESDAY
You rang, sir? [What the heckie did y'all do.]
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He's standing around in the room in a button-up white shirt that hasn't been buttoned yet, and a pair of slacks.]
I need... saffron powder!
[He needs a whole lot of something by the looks of it.]
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Uh. [Uh!] May I inquire why, sir?
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Ayabe made me take a bath. My mark [he touches at his forehead to the very faint red stain between the brows] washed away. I need to put it back.
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And it needs to be saffron? Nothing else will suffice? [She doesn't seem to be kicking up a fuss, she's just curious.]
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It can't be lipstick. I'm not putting lipstick on my forehead. It's important. It's a vermilion mark, and it means to "open the door to wisdom and aspiration." Like enlightenment. It can't be anything stupid. We use saffron powder sometimes.
Also. [He puffs up a bit.] Can you make people have dreams? And can you give me Spirit Grass?
[Very demanding.]
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It wasn't gonna be lipstick! Do you know people who put lipstick on their forehead? That seems like a waste. [But she's listening and nodding along....]
I don't know who's in charge of dreams, but...[...spirit grass? ...weed? Peach looks puzzled...] I think we have some in the garden! Have you been outside yet? [...a glance at the bed in the door.] Can you get outside?
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[Because Ayabe is a stupid modern boy, but listen. Jin Ling has to make sure Peach is on the same page as him.] The garden...? I-- [He follows her look to the door.]
I can get out fine. I've been get--Ayabe is the one who made us come in here! I don't know why. He's just stupid.
[Wait. Being in a such a rush to get saffron, he only just now realizes he's standing alone... in a room... with a girl... with his shirt open. He turns beet red suddenly in the face and snaps the shirt closed before hastily trying to do up the buttons.]
A-anyway! I need saffron more importantly! For my mark. And I want to make Carbide Ash see what my world looks like so he will stop saying it isn't real!
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I can get you a tiny bit of saffron for your mark. You'll have to preserve it though! [...hm.] I don't know what we can do about dreams though. People don't really have control over those, do they? Why not just draw him pictures or something?
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Fine! It doesn't have to be a lot. I'm only putting my vermilion mark on again. [He glances up, but then quickly looks down again so he can find the hole for the last button.] No, he wouldn't believe me even if I drew it.
[Would Ash believe a dream? Damn... It'd at least be more real than a drawing.]
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Of course. I'll deliver it right away. [True to her word, she will leave behind a little saffron for him in a bitty pot.] Why is it so important that he believes you? Do others believe the things you've said?
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Yay, his saffron! Now he can be a stupid family-oriented cultivator in peace.]
Everyone here sounds insane. They keep talking about āother worlds,ā but there isnāt such a thing! There is one world, and Heaven, and the Yellow Spring! He thinks Iām stupid for not just trusting everyone, and thenā
ātried to turn it around in me! Iām going to prove to him Iām not lying!
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If there's really one world, where do you think you are right now? And how do you explain the things that everyone else has experienced? [She'll get back to Ash being mean in a second.]
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W5, MONDAY
Jin Ling...?
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But he's a peacock for a reason, so he charges inside in a march, tail wide and open to make himself look a lot bigger.]
You--! Show yourself!
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...rude. [The same echo-y tone is there, but...hm.]
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He whirls around in place.]
Come out!
[........he hates remembering dumbass Ash. š]
...please.
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...no. [Ah.]
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[He looksāsurprised? Why would Blue not come out, dammit!]
Why are you hiding?! Are you playing favorites?! Then why is there all this talk about working together! Are you saying something is wrong with me?! Are you too good to come and see me?!
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He spins in a small circle to look around again, and then he just....... collapses gently onto the floor where he's standing, legs crossed. Reaching up, he unwinds the purple bell out of the band of his ponytail. And then he sits with it in held in one palm, arms resting on his legs, eyes closed.
This is fine. Calming bell.]
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Hewwo...?]
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He doesn't Homer scream so much as make a very uuhHHUHUH noise and fall over backward into the pile of his now fanned out tail, dropping the Jiang bell on the floor.]
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He rolls hastily over onto his hands and knees like he thinks it's going to fly back out and attack him. He waits, eyeing the bell lying between him and the bed on the floor.
Very slowly, he reaches out and snatches it back.]
Are you... Master Blue?
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