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[weifinder]

( He starts with his hand falling away from the ICP, and then Wei Wuxian lifts them both, cupping them to bow to the screen; polite, but not overly so. He's in one of the carriages' open spaces rather than any closed and quieter room. )

Hello, Trainlings! On the subject of training, ignoring the Express part, and sadly lacking any Void technical backup, who else has experience with or abilities in generating illusions, or confusion arrays, anything that fools senses into believing something is there that isn't—in dreams or waking, I suppose.

( He waves a hand, smiling at the screen. )

Brief as our time at the Undersea Monastery was, our quiet monks provided a dip into things we can try to keep working with here: meditation and illusion breakaways. There's a few from my close-to-home world who have skills in either and are willing offer training for those interested, and I'm looking for other perspectives and talents to do the same. We may not be Void powered, but there are patterns enough to keep training people to recognise.

( This is followed by a pause, and his eyes drifting upward, before he clears his throat and, with another grin that's a bit less sincere, adds: )

Also, with the, ah, animal populations on board. Exactly how many dogs or other dog-like animals are on train? And do you have any set, er, schedules or. Places. Where you let them free.

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[weifinder]

( A shrug: )

Sure, I'm curious! ALso about your book if you find anything interesting. Cultivation... well, standard cultivation is a lot of self refinement, meditation, things of that nature. What I do isn't only that, but relies on that base for steadiness and control.

( Waving his hand like it's no big thing, despite the fact it is, in fact, important. )

Oh, you know. Most of those I deal with are shouting or screaming based on what it was they died like, or what resentments they held onto. Bodied dead don't... exactly have the same sound, to me? It'd be possessions which could, and even that depends on the possessing ghost. Some I'd have to be in physical contact to 'hear.'

( Anyone not overflowing with resentful energies, at the minimum. )

[zombiemessiah]

Huh...

Usually the dead just have small thoughts. I don't hear as clearly as my daughter could. But when I could they weren't particularly malicious. At least, not towards me, maybe to people around us.

So would I count as 'bodied dead'?

[weifinder]

Mm, to me? Yes. Not sure what that'd mean to anyone else, but you're conscious and in possession of a body. Your own, I'm assuming?

[zombiemessiah]

Yup. If that's all the criteria it takes.

So maybe you might be able to hear me if I used my powers. What I use to usually talk to other undead.

[weifinder]

Huh, why not try? Wouldn't be so surprising if I did, but world differences are as likely to explain why not, as well.

( ... though in truth he likely would, which is a whole other weirdness since it's not as common for living-ish creatures in his world to communicate that way. )

[zombiemessiah]

Next time we're in the same car lets give it a shot. Train sort of impairs my range.

[He's getting better off the train, though. Range and focus are definitely improving.]

[weifinder]

Works for me! Though maybe not if it's at dinner. Step a car over or something like that!