Wei Wuxian sighs. "Well," he says as he grabs a few more slips of talisman paper, "then we will start with this."
He shoves a fistful of hair back from his face and props his elbow on the bar, writing out a fresh line of characters. He works in silence for several minutes, scribbling talisman after talisman, tossing them into a crooked stack between them. As far as any outsider might tell, he is a stranger to Moiraine, absorbed so completely in his own work that the woman next to him does not exist.
"This is cultivation, not necromancy," he says at last, and shoves the stack her way. Wei Wuxian taps the paper on top. "Place this one north, no more than twenty-five meters from the pool. Space the rest evenly in a circle around the clearing. Go counter-clockwise or it will not work. Then activate the topmost talisman. Write down everything you see and come back to me."
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He shoves a fistful of hair back from his face and props his elbow on the bar, writing out a fresh line of characters. He works in silence for several minutes, scribbling talisman after talisman, tossing them into a crooked stack between them. As far as any outsider might tell, he is a stranger to Moiraine, absorbed so completely in his own work that the woman next to him does not exist.
"This is cultivation, not necromancy," he says at last, and shoves the stack her way. Wei Wuxian taps the paper on top. "Place this one north, no more than twenty-five meters from the pool. Space the rest evenly in a circle around the clearing. Go counter-clockwise or it will not work. Then activate the topmost talisman. Write down everything you see and come back to me."