#❪ ⠀ 🐍 ⠀ ┆ v: slowly we unfurl like lotus flowers. ╱ botw au.

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@hyliacursed sent : ❛ You know, I don’t even want to ask what you did with it. I just want to say… nice work. ❜ ( accepting. )

the it they were talking about being the lone moblin that patrolled the field — and the what he did with it that they wished to not ask about, being disemboweling the creature's corpse to rob it of its innards postmortem. that had been baizhu's goal from the start, despite how uncharacteristically gruesome it was for him; in truth, it was something he did not enjoy, hovering over the body and slitting it open while it looks up at him with still - wet eyes. however, he had read that its guts do wonderfully for medicine — which he had already previously tested.

it wasn't as if the organs of another creature being used for medical purposes was at all unheard of, but the bones of hyrule offered little . . . alternatives to doing it himself, any place where he could simply buy the guts from those more iron - willed than he was, so that required him to get his hands dirty.

" is that praise? i'm honored, " he said with a tone deceptively light, " i am not so weak that i cannot handle a single moblin, though. at least not today. "

he then put a bottle filled to the brim with thick red liquid into their hands, smile as sweet and nonchalant as ever. inside the bottle rested medicine, still bitter but he did manage to slightly sweeten it with some flowers and berries he found around the wilds that he confirmed would not neutralize the medicinal properties any — he figured they would appreciate it if it felt a bit less like it was boring a hole in their throat on the way down.

" here. this potion should cure any minor ailment immediately — small wounds, aches, what - have - you. "

aside from the flowers and berries, however, the guts of that moblin were the bulk of that potion.

" . . . are you certain you do not want to ask? " he asked with just the slightest sly lilt in his words, " the process is actually quite interesting. "

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@dullweapons said : "Are you any good with a broadsword?"

despite his usually weak disposition, baizhu was far from incompetent and unable to fend for himself. if he were, he would have been a fool to travel to hyrule with no companion aside from a little girl — either a fool, or suicidal and wanting to go out in perhaps the most convoluted way possible. still, the monsters that lurked the bones of the kingdom seemed relentless. impossibly so. as if some darker force urged them on, fueled their blood-lust. baizhu's magic was slow, only good at a distance, and did not do well against large herds of them.

ray cadell so far had proven himself a gracious enough bodyguard. but even he must have felt that his ability to protect himself was lacking. changsheng had left her place from around his shoulders to accompany qiqi while she explored a nearby area, one that should have been relatively safe. baizhu and ray lingered around what once appeared to be a wall, now a ring of rubble. stabbed into the dry soil was a sword — its edges slowly succumbing to rust, but not yet unusable. ray asked if he were any good with broadswords.

"well, frankly . . . no," he admitted, an awkward laugh lilting his words as if shame had crept its way up his neck, "i have never been trained with a sword." to be fair, there had been no reason. he had only ever been a doctor.

he pulled the sword from the ground, and although it slid out with surprising ease, it felt heavy in his hand. even if he were to be shown the basics, his body would lack the stamina to put up much of a fight for very long. still, no harm in at least learning.

he took a stance, both hands firmly gripped on the handle.

"so? is my standing form at least okay?" he grinned, playful.

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