The thing is, Shen Yuan doesn't actually have anything urgent to discuss. Or, rather, he has everything urgent to discuss—I've been gay for like two weeks and I already have a boyfriend AND another handsome brooding guy who wants to kiss??? I accidentally triggered a nightmare trap and now I can't stop thinking about my sister finding my dead body??? I think I might kind of be a stoner now???—but none of it is urgent the way Airplane means, not plot urgent, and none of it really justifies pulling Airplane away from Claudius. He'd just—he didn't—
"There's more people than usual," he says finally. "Arriving, today. It's always one at a time, with like, weeks in between, but today you're here, and I ran into King Arthur, and Jiang Cheng from Chen Qing Ling, and a mean old lady from the Darkling's world."
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Date: 2024-01-04 03:16 pm (UTC)"There's more people than usual," he says finally. "Arriving, today. It's always one at a time, with like, weeks in between, but today you're here, and I ran into King Arthur, and Jiang Cheng from Chen Qing Ling, and a mean old lady from the Darkling's world."