One of my boys still thinks this might be outside influence, but I'm not ready to write the Xian Le off that easily.
[of course he isn't. he lets baren use him as a legrest as he snags the pipe, though, drawing a breath in and exhaling smoke as he hands it back over.]
...sent a message over to Xie Lian this week. I figure if it's getting this bad, we might have to actually talk-- letting his guard dog speak for him isn't going to get us anywhere.
[maybe he argued with jiang cheng. it's fine. he wrinkles his nose at the thought of meeting with the other head, though; he doesn't want to, but he'll suck it up.]
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[of course he isn't. he lets baren use him as a legrest as he snags the pipe, though, drawing a breath in and exhaling smoke as he hands it back over.]
...sent a message over to Xie Lian this week. I figure if it's getting this bad, we might have to actually talk-- letting his guard dog speak for him isn't going to get us anywhere.
[maybe he argued with jiang cheng. it's fine. he wrinkles his nose at the thought of meeting with the other head, though; he doesn't want to, but he'll suck it up.]