Snippet from a MDZS fic I'm working on

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Wei Wuxian was bored. Bored bored bored bored bored! He was so bored that he might have to visit the Healing Pavillion after this lecture was finally over, so that he could inform them that he had successfully proven that it was definitely impossible to die of boredom. They would surely be delighted at his contribution to the field of medicine - the fact that it had come from his own pain would just make it better for them - healers loved learning things from other people's pain!

Though they might be disappointed at not getting to poke needles in him…

Actually, that disappointment might be acute enough that they might jab needles into him for the sheer hell of it…

Better keep this valuable knowledge to himself.

He sighed & made an (admittedly half-hearted) effort to focus on what Lan Qiren was saying, but his brain refused to focus on it, & it just became a droning noise akin to the buzzing of a bee. Just without the chance of getting your hands on some honey if you followed it.

More likely he'd get himself more copying punishments. Though that would mean spending time in the company of Lan Zhan. Which was even better than honey!

He looked over at the other boy, wondering if he could tease him a little to pass some time. He'd avoided it today, as his first attempts had been met with more anger than usual. (Was Lan Zhan alright? Had he been assigned night patrol duties too many rights in a row, & was therefore suffering from a lack of sleep? Was he going to have to find who was responsible &... &… well he didn't know what he'd do to them, but he'd think up something awful!)

Normally he loved seeing how far he could push the Second Jade, but if Lan Zhan really snapped, & did so in class, he might get in trouble!

Although... maybe it'd be good for him to get in a little trouble... Surely it hurt to be this restrained all the time?

His thoughts about helping his friend become a more well-rounded person (while also trying to come up with a suitably horrible prank to play on whoever was in charge of the Cloud Recesses patrol rota) crashed to a halt when he saw that Lan Zhan was looking at him. For a moment he was unable to think of anything, then Lan Zhan looked away.