video; un: zewu-jun

[zewu_jun]

Name: Lan Xichen
Date: forward-dated! 2/20
Format: video


[ Lan Xichen is resting on a rock beside what appears to be a calm lake. For those that frequent the Forge, they might recognize it as a nearby landmark one can pass on the route. He greets the network with a seated bow. ]

I apologize for the interruption, but I wonder if I might ask some questions to those who have time?

If you have a Bond, what prompted your decision to choose that person? I know Bonding is highly encouraged, but finding a suitable match might be complicated, and one cannot necessarily be trained in choosing a good partner. With only my own experience, I must assume not many other worlds have a custom like this. It's not the same as choosing to marry or finding a cultivation partner.

How do you know if you have made the right choice? Or, if you choose not to Bond at all, what are your feelings on such a connection?

I'm afraid I have based most of my judgments on the partnerships I know from my own life. Up until now, perhaps I have misunderstood the relationship that forms.

Comments

[zewu_jun]

Because he was someone important to me that I wanted to save.

[deadvotional]

save?

[zewu_jun]

Yes. I wanted to save him the way he once saved me.

[deadvotional]

does he need to be saved?

[zewu_jun]

He did. Before coming here, I did not think I would see him again.

Coming here was my chance to change the past.

[deadvotional]

i see. and now that you have?

[zewu_jun]

I wonder if I have been doing the right thing.

[deadvotional]

i doubt anyone else can answer that

[zewu_jun]

You are probably right. But I am currently without answers myself.

Things have changed too much. This is all I can do.

[deadvotional]

ask questions of strangers?

[zewu_jun]

Yes. That is all I can do.

[deadvotional]

hm. have you gotten what you're looking for?

[zewu_jun]

I don't know yet. But I have learned more than I knew before.

[deadvotional]

better than nothing

[zewu_jun]

Mm. And can I ask what Hua-gongzi looks for in a Bond? Just a means for survival? Something more?

[deadvotional]

i wouldn't know

[zewu_jun]

Surely Hua-gongzi has given it some thought? Even if it were for someone else.

[deadvotional]

i have no interest for myself or anyone else

[zewu_jun]

None at all? Hm. What is it that deters you, then? Perhaps your insights will help me as well.

[deadvotional]

why should any of us be forced to tie ourselves to another

[zewu_jun]

I don't think we should be forced. But if there is a choice, and if someone were to be properly suitable as a partner, and if that person were to be agreeable to the idea, then that would not be force.