Okay longer snippet from my hmc au. The context?? Is that Lan Wangji and Wen Yuan noticed a few scenes back someone is trapped in the maze arrays and when they prompt Wei Wuxian he's like "Oh yeah, I knew that. They've been in there for months. You have to admire the perseverance I guess."
A lot of the plot here is pulled ofc from the scarecrow that is trailing the castle! It's been adapted and applied pretty differently, but if we're talking equivalencies I suppose!
It's a raw draft okay I know it needs work but for now I hope it's a little fun?
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Wen Yuan looked up from the mountain of books and pages he had laid before him, watching Wei Wuxian with the same bemusement Lan Wangji would have, if he were one to deign to appear bemused.
“What do you mean you knew?” Wen Yuan asked, failing to conceal his tone.
Wei Wuxian shook out his sleeves, apparently none the wiser to their twin scrutiny.
“I mean just that; I’ve known about the people wandering our maze arrays for weeks.”
He tossed several defunct compass-drafts into his bag and several more poorly folded papers. When he turned back to Wen Yuan and Lan Wangji, his face was quite reflective.
“They’re not very bright, whoever they are.”
He shrugged and continued about his tasks, leaving greater confusion in his wake that, Lan Wangji was certain, he was absolutely perceptive to.
“Did you say people?”
Wen Yuan had abandoned his studies entirely now, and Lan Wangji caught himself frowning at the boy before acknowledging the more important details at hand. Wei Wuxian had said ‘people.’
Before them, Wei Wuxian gathered a pair of fractured pieces that had been his old inkstone and considered each with grave intensity.
“Yes I did, very clever A'Yuan," he said at last, placing the halves down. They would be spared a day longer.
“Do you two need anything?" Wei Wuxian asked, tucking everything away and handling his bag with abandon. "I’m going out to throw these,” He thrust his sack full of compass-drafts into the air and shook it about, “Into the Changjiang.”
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