"I will be careful." 

Hug. "You better."

"Mn. I promise." 

"Thanks."

"You are welcome." Cuddlepet. 

Snugs!

She and Lan Jingyi keep playing over the next while, splitting their time between classes, goofing off, copying (or fake not copying, as the case may be) rules, and continuing the adventures of Bun Yuan and Fox Cultivator. Lan Yuan has fun mixing in historic and creative elements, with no particular care about what's actually possible or realistic. (She also has so much fun running around, and decides the obvious solution to 'they sometimes get lost running around in less traversed places' is to get lost TONS and learn all the paths.)

Jingyi is somewhat less enthusiastic about the getting lost tons part but is excited about the learning all the paths part! He learns to read A-Yuan's pretty handwriting and starts incorporating bits of it into his own, to the teachers' frustration. 

Spreading the Bad Handwriting is really hilarious for some reason!

(She gets better - when making art for daddy - at making art-words that're also readable by people not familiar with her system.)

Her art words are beautiful and he loves them. 

He gets better. Very slowly, but he does get better

She decides at one point to learn about medicine, so she can help daddy if he gets injured again, and separately discovers medicine is REALLY COOL.

He tells her about her secret cousin Wen Qing who was an amazing doctor. 

Ooooooo.

Does he think the healers will teach her stuff if she follows them around?

He thinks she should ask the healers to teach her so they can tell her when she can be around and when it might interfere with their patients getting better. 

Okay!

She does that!

There is only so much the healers can teach someone who doesn't have a golden core yet but they are happy to talk to her about what they're doing if she will be quiet and sit still and not disturb the patients. 

She practices being quiet and sitting still and meditating some! (She really wants a golden core...)

"These things take time."

"Want it to take less time..."

"Your teachers say you are progressing well." Aside from her handwriting but that doesn't have anything to do with forming a Golden Core and anyway she's doing better at that than they think.

"I guess so..."

Pat pat. "Some things cannot be rushed." 

"That's really annoying."

"Mn." 

She snickers. "Mmmmmmmmmmmnnnnnnnnnnnnnn."

Snugglepat.