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Raafi awakes to some curious forest creature snuffling at his ear, where he's curled up beneath a tree; he startles, teleporting away, and only when he goes back for his bedroll and finds it missing does he remember that he'd gone to sleep in a farmer's hayloft the night before, and not a forest at all.
Raafi in MDZS
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where my feet lead me
"Whenever you're ready. Maybe tomorrow, if they're going to want a demonstration of the same spells I showed you."
where my feet lead me
"I'll be ready, then." To Wangji: "And I can look for you this afternoon for the spell."
where my feet lead me
And Raafi heads out to explore the rest of the campus, favoring places where he can watch people going about their day or doing interesting things.
where-the-chaos-is
People go to and fro, occasionally exchanging a word with him but mostly passing by quietly, occupied by their own business.
The land around the buildings is clear and beautiful, smooth and grassy with little gardens tucked away here and there.
The entire place is cloaked with an aura of quiet serenity and peaceful contemplation.
Around noon, people start heading for a centralized dining area.
where my feet lead me
It's very nice, if maybe the sort of place that'll get boring eventually.
He follows when people start heading for lunch, peeking in to see how their mealtimes are set up.
Everyone eats at the same time; there aren't staggered mealtimes so a smaller space can feed more people. Food is laid out in large dishes in the centers of the tables and people serve themselves therefrom. The people closest to Raafi leave a space for him to sit down.
Nobody talks during the meal.
where my feet lead me
He takes them up on the apparent offer, taking a little bit of everything for his meal and producing a fork from his belt rather than try to use the chopsticks.
Afterward, he goes looking for Lan Wangji.
where-the-chaos-is
The fork gets a few odd looks but no comments.
Lan Wangji is to be found in the library.
where my feet lead me
They can go, then, and Raafi'll follow him to wherever he'd like to be for the spellcasting. "I only have one casting of Eagle's today, but if you turn out to need more than that, I can do it tomorrow, don't worry about fitting it all in now." And he casts, and offers the spell.
where-the-chaos-is
"This feels very odd."
Deep breath.
"Wei Wuxian was a member of the Yunmeng Jiang sect. During the conflict with the Wen sect, he developed an unorthodox new way of doing magic, which involved harnessing resentful energies and commanding the undead. This caused some entirely understandable concern, but everyone was so concerned about the Wen sect that for the most part it was simply accepted as long as it consistently won battles. After he had won the war for them, people began to become more uneasy about it, but public opinion didn't turn entirely against him until he decided to protect surviving Wen-aligned civilians from being killed slowly."
where my feet lead me
"That sounds admirable, on his part. Though risky, if necromancy is morally corruptive here - it is in my world."
where-the-chaos-is
"I do not know. The circumstances surrounding Jin Zixuan's death remain opaque to me. But I do know that Jiang Yanli's death is not on his hands as many claim; she died on a sword aimed at Wei Wuxian after throwing herself between them, not at his hand. But even if he was some amount corrupted by the end, he was still a better person than the hypocrites who cried out for his blood."
where my feet lead me
"He sounds it. And if it is - that is something my magic can do something about, if he's well enough to want me to."
where-the-chaos-is
"He will be better than if we did not resurrect Jiang Yanli first, I am certain."
where my feet lead me
"Mmhmm. I'll see if I can catch your brother later to make sure we're still planning on doing that tomorrow - does he know about what happened?"
where-the-chaos-is
"The facts of the matter are public knowledge. Most would frame them differently."
where my feet lead me
He nods. "I'd like someone involved with planning her resurrection who knows the situation and won't be surprised when she starts telling people they're wrong, is why I ask - I wouldn't know if it would be better to wait and talk to some people about it first, or something."
where-the-chaos-is
"Brother would not be surprised. I do not know if Jin Guangyao would be surprised but I would not be surprised if he wasn't."
where my feet lead me
"And I don't know enough about the political situation to know what to ask. I do think he deserves to come back in a situation where he won't be demonized, if we can manage it - are there any other misconceptions about him?"