chroma | catchall for vin

[countermeasures]

i haven't had coffee yet so this won't be pretty yet

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[countermeasures]

Well... yes and no. He has a certain amount of power within the capital, but I've been removed from the Su family tree, so he doesn't actually have any say over what I do.

But that didn't stop him from trying to interfere. [she huffs.] It's annoying. I'm glad my mother told him to get lost.

[allomantic]

...Will it cause a problem from you? Not being in the family tree.

[...]

Though I understand if that is too personal...

[countermeasures]

It might make it harder to get married, but...

[there's a pause.]

I don't really care about that.

[allomantic]

I see.

[juiqing is valid!]

[countermeasures]

Who needs a man to support me? [she huffs] I make a living just fine with my work! And that's that!

[allomantic]

[a little snort]

You may have the right idea.

[countermeasures]

It would be nice if more people would accept that!

[boys are stinky

(and yet in like five chapters from her canonpoint she's going to be hetstuck why are webtoons like this)]

[allomantic]

Have many people argued with you about it? I cannot imagine being so invested in what someone else chooses to do in their private life...

[countermeasures]

Too many. Frankly, it's ridiculous.

[allomantic]

Is it another function of nobility, where you are...? Though, even if that is the case, it's...

[annoying, to say the least]

[countermeasures]

It's important to a lot of them because it's how families make alliances with each other and strengthen their power.

[allomantic]

[frowning a little...]

Sometimes I am relieved I do not have to worry about such things.

[countermeasures]

Only sometimes...?

[jiuqing would honestly be very happy if she never had to worry about marriage ever again.]

...but then, I suppose you must have had other things to worry about...

[allomantic]

[she nods.]

That is what I meant... I've often thought I would take the problems of a noble over other things.

[a little shrug, though.]

[countermeasures]

[honestly... that's fair. even when you're having problems as a noble, at least you generally have food in your belly and a roof over your head.]

That makes a certain amount of sense, though it really would be nicer if you didn't have to deal with any problems at all.

[allomantic]

[she pauses for a moment, not seeming too bothered as she continues.]

I suppose, but that is not what life is like.

[countermeasures]

No, it isn't.

[...]

Our current problems are rather pressing, at any rate.

[allomantic]

[nodding]

Yes... I would rather return home sooner rather than later.

[countermeasures]

...I would, too.

[she is firmly in the "will refuse to accept that there's no way back" camp]

[allomantic]

You were in the middle of something, I take it?

[countermeasures]

Yes.

[she huffs.]

And I imagine you must have been too?

[allomantic]

[nodding.]

It hardly seems rare among us.

[countermeasures]

It's so frustrating... it's not like this is a convenient time for us all to be away from home.

[allomantic]

What was going on where you are, if I may ask?

[countermeasures]

...my country is at war. I had joined [read: sneaked in by disguising herself as a soldier until they were too far away for her to get sent back] to serve as a doctor, and there was plague in one of the cities the other army had been attacking.

I'd been treating the townspeople who had been infected so we could evacuate them to somewhere safer before the next attack. Many of them had been showing a marked improvement, so we were just about to set out...