ON HIATUS!
Those eyes... those beautiful sharp, dark brown eyes, his gaze so cold contrary to how his mere presence made my consciousness slowly melt away. I was glad we had gotten close. Oh how I wanted to close the gap between us, I wanted to make...
It was finally breakfast break, after 2 hours of Lan Qiren's lessons it was eight in the morning though the break is only 20 minutes until everyone has to go train, the break was still well needed. Jin Ling was fed up with Lan Qiren's blabbering and ran out the classroom as soon as class was dismissed, Sizhui and the other students followed closely behind. Jin Ling and Sizhui went to their usual spot by a tree next to the cafeteria looking around, "Where is Jingyi? Did he flirt with Jiang Hua agai-" "RAWR! '' Jingyi popped out of nowhere jumping up while pushing Jin Ling causing him to lose balance and fall on his knees yelping, his face hairs from Sizhui. "Uhhh no need to thank me, OH by the way old man Lan wanted you two to go to his library before y'all go practice archery." Sizhui and Jing Lin, still a bit red headed towards the library wondering what Lan Qiren could want.
"Teacher/Sect leader Lan." They greeted. "Sizhui, Jin Ling, I know you guys are wondering what I called you here for. There's a village in Qinghe Nie Sect located in the north east direction called Xue-He Village due to the abnormal number of corpses that arise from one of its rivers, though that's not the reason for this discussion. Recently villagers have complained about a figure of a woman taking people's life-stock, children and husbands. We think it's a wrath ghosts that died before getting a chance to live life. I need you two to go to Qinghe and put that ghost to rest and give it a chance for resurrection. Sect leader Nie has gone to Yunmeng to help sect leader Jiang to rebuild Yunmeng. He asked all the sect leaders to sent help as he is caught up with helping sect leader Jiang, all the cultivators are busy taking care of their own clan's matters and out of all the disciples sent here, Sizhui you is the best cultivator, and you Jin Ling the best at fighting, you guys will be going there. After training today, you guys must pack up and discuss plans. Wake up at 5:30 and mount your swords, it's the fastest way. I expect you guys to arrive at ten. This mission must be finished in 12 days as I understand talking with the natives and tracking down the wrath will take some time. As for money go ask Wei Wuxian" "Alright."
After training, Jin Ling and Sizhui told Jingyi they were not gonna be here for a few days and agreed to meet next to the rock formation near the cold spring after they packed their bags and Sizhui asked his parents for money. "I'll have our bags and breakfast ready by five and wake you up at 15. We will head towards Qinghe, if we mount our swords we should arrive around nine, we should be settled down at about 10, elder Wei has found us an in to stay at and given us several silver nuggets and a bag of tong-bi (an old chinese currency in the form of a coin with a whole through it to put a string through for a easier way to carry it). "Umm before you continue there's a bit of a problem" Sizhui stared curiously "I don't know how to mount a sword..." "it's good that you voiced this now, if you told me this tomorrow I wouldn't have known what to do. It's okay, I will teach you. It's quite easy actually." Sizhui said smiling at Jin Ling who flushed. "Ok so first of all take out your sword. You wanna lay it on the floor." he instructed while doing so himself. "Then you wanna focus your spiritual power on your writing hand point to your sword and slowly you will be able to lift it up. After that all you have to do is jump up, your body will balance itself, it's easy, just take some getting used to." Jin Ling did as he was told and got on his sword. "You're a natural!" Sizhui applauded. Suddenly a cricket hopped onto Suihua (Jin Ling's sword) "Ah-" Jinling jumped falling off while Suihua was unbalanced, Sizhui catched him. Holding him by his shoulders to prevent to fall, Jin Ling said thank you ready to stand up when Suihua lost balance and fell off kind of flinging into their direction, Jin Ling's first instinct was to kick it out the way, so he did, forgetting he was in Sizhuis arms. Well atleast their heads were still attached, though now Jin Ling was sitting on top of Sizhui. Good thing Suihua was flung, Jin Zixuan would not be very happy at this sight. Jin Ling quickly got up, apologized and ran to his dorm. Sizhui sat there still shocked but eventually got up and returned to his dorm too.
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