Tiny nod.  "That must have taken a lot of courage."

"Oh no, Wrongmountain, I'm a coward."

"...going against your own clan and your orders doesn't sound like a cowardly thing to me."

"I didn't kill anyone in the whole war."

"My- I know a, kind of a lot of people actually, who would say that not killing people is the harder course sometimes, and no less worthy.  My first teacher was a healer."

"--I didn't not kill people because I was a priest, I didn't kill people because I was scared."

"Well, saving people takes guts too...  But it's over and done with and I should stop needling you, sorry."  They squirm again, managing to twist enough to get a good scratch in on one ear this time.

"Wen Qing will be annoyed at you if you aren't still."

"Right, sorry, I'm just-"  Metaphysically allergic to your house and also you, is there any polite way to say that.  "It's all the ghosts and stuff, I get- jumpy, not being able to move."

"Oh, yes. Resentful energy is tremendously bad for humans."

Slight nod.  "I can do a cleansing circle- one of the first things I learned once I was done tripping over my own feet- not sure if it would work here, though, maybe outside...?"

"Oh, I don't think that would be a good idea."

"Yeah, I don't know how you could convince the ghosts to not go in it- well, dunno, maybe Wei Wuxian could actually- but either way then you're stuck with a five-foot radius you're not using for anything else.  Well, anything ghost-related anyway, I guess you could like store stuff there or something."

"Oh, it just cleans out a five-foot circle from resentful energy? I thought you wanted to clean out the whole mountain."

"Oh!  No, that'd take forever.  And I know you said they're protecting you, anyway, I wasn't- I mean, like I said it might not work at all either."

"I think it's worth a try, if you think it would help you get better and not make you worse."

"Just hanging around here shouldn't- well, shouldn't make me too much worse, I don't think.  It does involve getting up and moving around, though- I can walk slowly, I guess?

And uh- you probably don't want to go in the circle after it's done, or Wei Wuxian either.  Regular people who've been hanging around here- it'll hurt but it's the good kind of hurt, like, I dunno, setting a bone, but if they're spending all their time here picking up resentful energy- ah, fuck.  It's not gonna do much good if I just have to sit in a circle outdoors instead of on a bed in here, is it."

"I think Wei Wuxian doesn't need resentful energy to survive. He just uses it for cultivation."

"That's- good, I guess.  Still, he probably doesn't wanna be, uh, on metaphorical fire if he doesn't have to and he's just gonna pick it right back up again." 

"Maybe you could go back in the cleansing circle to rest and then spend time with us the rest of the time?"

"Only lasts an hour- the space it's in should still be clear of resentful energy for a while afterwards, till the ghosts start hanging out in it again, but the cleansing force fades out." 

"Could you cast it again every time you want to move?"

Probably not, but explaining why means admitting exactly how they're vulnerable... on the other hand, it's not like they're not vulnerable now.

"Maybe?  Hm, and it would be nice to have somewhere clear to sleep either way, actually.  Are there any, like, woodsy areas where people don't walk through there much?"