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[ He starts to offer to help, but, well. For one, he couldn't fit in there with her to help, and for another, she's clearly adapted to make the best use of her abilities and this form as possible.

There's a moment of confusion at her question, until she taps her own horns and he remembers - oh. Were he not a dragon right now, he's reasonably sure he would have started to redden. Particularly when he recalls the moment he'd thought he'd heard - or smelled - someone at the window, and that the only reason that his overactive protective instincts hadn't responded was because it seemed familiar. ]

You could consider calling me Xichen on the merit of the friendship I would like to have with you, regardless of my relationship with either of your brothers.

[ Of course his relationship with them is important to him, and of course it is one of the reasons that he is inclined to think highly of her - but what he knows of her efforts to tend to the wounded in the Sunshot Campaign and his interactions with her here have inclined him to think equally as high of her, and he suspects that she has most often had who she is defined by her relationships to her brothers, her parents, her husband. There is nothing wrong with that, of course - has he not been defined by his relationship with others as well, and taken pride in being who he was to them? But still, he cannot help but think that perhaps it would be nice, to have a friendship that was just theirs.

That is not what she meant by asking, though, and his whiskers twitch as he considers his response. ]

Wanyin and I have an understanding, which has recently had a new development. We have not yet discussed all that entails, though I will be having that conversation with him tomorrow after allowing some time for processing.

[ It's the most diplomatic way he can think of to say yes, I slept with your brother while we were a little out of our minds; he ditched me the next morning and left me on read, which I then had to look up on the internet to understand what that means, and I'm giving him one more day to respond as a courtesy before I politely knock on his door and let him know that he cannot get rid of me this easily. ]

We are not sect leaders here. No duties, no obligations, and adapting to this place has, by necessity, lended itself to becoming more comfortable with a certain level of intimacy with others. I would not want to assume such intimacy carries the same implications that it would were we back home, among those obligations.