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Jin Ling ⬤ The Untamed
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a present. —

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( as present as she is at the yunmeng brothers' household, she doesn't frequently see jin ling there. she means to hand him the gift directly as a sign of respect and genuine repentance, but their paths never fully cross and so she misses her chance. thus — whenever jin ling comes home, there's an unassuming gift box on the floor beside his bedroom door. the box itself is carved wood, hidden beneath and outer layer of red wrapping paper. once opened, there is a red packet with physical crystals of demichroma inside, and a small wooden figure of a dog that closely resembles fairy.

there's also two dry, pressed flowers, and a note:

In apology for my behavior.
Wen Qing. )

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[ It's a little while before he finds it, because he is stubborn and because he is nervous, so he doesn't go back to his Uncle's place very quickly.

When he does find it, he's glad he's alone, because he doesn't really know what to make of it. It's not that he hasn't gotten presents before - he's gotten so many that they rarely meant a thing. But it's the first present he's gotten since he got here. He hasn't actually accumulated any belongings - possibly in part because he keeps running the fuck away from everyone and that would be hampered by having to carry stuff around.

So he just sort of sits down on the floor with the box in his lap for a while, frowning at it for a long time. Eventually he opens it.

The wooden dog is the thing he picks up first, the thing he keeps holding as he goes through the rest of it, tightly squeezed in his palm. The demichroma in a red satchel feels like her trying to make up for New Years, which he fully believes she must. The flowers...

Jin Ling has always had a difficult time with flowers, thanks to his name. Orchids in particular. So for a second he's not sure if she's silently mocking him, with this. But...

He sighs to himself, putting everything but the dog back in the box.

He knows what this is. It's a peace offering. Meant to assuage his temper. He knows she was hardly fully responsible for the tension between them that night - knows his behaviour was just as bad - and the gift just makes him feel even worse for not having the grace to do something similar. Ugh.


So a few days later, he leaves a gift with his Uncle, to give to her. Wrapped in ivory and gold paper, it's a small, white, leather-bound journal. The pages are empty, but in the front page there is a pressed daisy. The card that comes with it says:

For new histories.
Jin Ling ]