Lan Wangji's eyebrows lift, just barely. This line of inquiry1 has the potential to truly stretch the limits of qin language, depending on how Shen Yuan chooses to answer.
Firstly, then: Is there anything else you want to say?
With a welcome and surprising flicker of humor, Lan Wangji says, "Yes, there is. I will ask what." He does -- and this answer is longer, but not so long as he had been half-fearing.
"Shen Yuan wants to speak with you about everything you have been saying to the plant that will become his body," he says, "but not through me. It is not the same this way."
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Firstly, then: Is there anything else you want to say?
With a welcome and surprising flicker of humor, Lan Wangji says, "Yes, there is. I will ask what." He does -- and this answer is longer, but not so long as he had been half-fearing.
"Shen Yuan wants to speak with you about everything you have been saying to the plant that will become his body," he says, "but not through me. It is not the same this way."
1Yeah, yeah.