shadysided | IC CONTACT for ximilia.

My deepest apologies, laoshi. (●'◡'●)

[Where'd she even find that emote? Don't worry about it.]

Hey, it takes a village to raise a violent teenager, or something.
I'll take what I can get! Anything that shows me how to punch people who try something with me in the face.

[Don't think he doesn't pick up on the sass!! But it makes him laugh out loud so he'll let it go.]

I remember how hard you threw those dishes in Taeum, I wouldn't want to be on the other side of that arm. Alright, consider it added to the curriculum.

You betcha, I'm a plate-flinging MACHINE.

So we do the hand-fighting and meditation thing.

Do I have to like... study books? Or... scrolls?

... Whatever the lesson plan's written on?

how do you feel about extremely interesting lectures?

It's important you understand what cultivation is especially as we get further into it, but my writing is messy and I'd much rather teach you directly.

but you can take notes!

Ugh, lectures.

... As long as it isn't a lecture about how I'm wasting my life? I guess I can do you a favor and actually be a good student. Promise, laoshi. I'll take so many notes, your head will spin. 😏

Who lectures you about that? Here you are learning everything you possibly can, I've never met a better student!

Also I was a terrible student but only for the worst teachers. I give you permission to be a bad student if I am a terrible lecturer. But if you try to pull any pranks on me I'm warning you now that I will retaliate.

Oh, mostly just the people back home.

I wasn't exactly the most popular kid in class, to the students OR the teachers.

I'll save pranks for very, very special occasion, and only done out of nothing but fondness.

Sound like a deal?

[He makes note of that information, filing it away. Something to come back to another time maybe, if she's feeling like it. But they're far away from her world now and even if the protective instincts inside of him twitch at her words, there's nothing to be done for it now. The best he can do is to keep her smiling now.]

Deal. And I'll let you in on a secret, you are MY favorite student. Clearly your previous teachers and classmates simply didn't appreciate you the way you deserved.

You're just trying to flatter me so I'll be a student who DOESN'T prank you.

...

But thanks. I'll be nice to not be the total lost cause.

Just try not to get TOO sappy on me, okay?

Sappy? Me? Blasphemy! [He's definitely grinning.]

I speak nothing but the truth.

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