vera invenire

he has many skills to offer!!

😭

I need like 48 hours of sleep, lol

In other news, the cat loves all the cabinets in the new house. Got himself stuck in two drawers already. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

i know!!!

The only thing I can think is that he tired himself out after yelling his head off all day in the bathroom so he took a nap while I was freaking out

tysm i clearly need it

i really should have accounted for a cat-instigated wrench today.

This is the vibe

Thank you!!

And o h my god i don't know how I haven't passed out yet, we are on pure fumes

He is EVIL cute. This was, sadly, very on brand.

I saw him eyeing the door the other day and I said to him, try it, buddy, and you'll get left here

I didn't mean it!! Damn, I think this was payback.

Where was he hiding!!!! There was no furniture in the apartment!!!!! It was empty!!!!!!!!!!!

My god.

I come back to my apartment and the little fucker is staring at me from the window.

So after a full day of moving, I'm outside for an hour with a flashlight asking all my neighbors out walking dogs if they saw my little black cat in the pitch dark of our sprawling apartment complex.

I start circling back home, thinking - how many days can I delay, how do I find this cat!!!

No sign of him anywhere, not when I ring toys, open a can of food, or run the shower which always has him come running to investigate. Nada.

So I think - oh, my god, did he get out when the last mover left??

It's pitch black out. He's an inside, 10mnth old black cat.

I leave the state TOMORROW.

Oh. My god.

I'm moving tomorrow. I hired movers, so I had my dog and cat locked up in rooms while the front door stayed open. Cat yells bloody murder all day.

The movers leave, I let the pets out while I settle payment and then clean up a bit.

And that's when I realize I can't find the cat.

So! Well.

Gonna need a lot of distractions in the nearby future, I see.

(Every time my mind starts to wander I can feel my brain twisting just that little bit more. Distractions. Yes.)

Evil foreshadowing, is what that is.

She regains her memories and the sundial starts glowing.

I'm telling ya, there's more timey-whimey stuff with the tools. (And maybe another time-loop that can fix the ending since ZYL IS one of the tools, ahem.)

That's it for ep 8!

Cute scene of Guo Changcheng and Chu Shuzhi trying to train -- Lao Chu lets slip he had a little brother, even.

Side note, but do they ever explain why Wang Zheng just appeared?? She couldn't have been there very long if she can't be out in sunlight.

Da Qing runs in and immediately wonders if he just interrupted Shen Wei's walk of shame.

Look at the legs. Look at where all of that is pointed. *He was sitting normally before this.*

Shen Wei gives a bad lie about having a ~sixth sense~ for bad things happening, and ZYL makes this fricken face saying "Ohhh" -- once again, sprawled in front of Shen Wei with his fingers touching his own neck and his legs open.

Like, come on. Come on.

Super suspiciously, Shen Wei tells ZYL not to leave the city even though he himself is going on a field trip with some students.

Obviously, ZYL's like, sorry, bud. No can do. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

He's also taken the opportunity to ~sprawl~ himself on his bed in front of Shen Wei.

Shen Wei ABSOLUTELY uses his powers to heat up that dish right in front of ZYL.

Going to just leave these here because I can't make gifs, but their little huffs in this moment are so cute.

ZYL asks Shen Wei to join the SID again. He is refused, again.

He asks seriously this time, too. Before the feel was more of an invitation, one may even say a flirtation - now it's more practical, straightforward.

The rejections are really bothering him, lol.

ZYL notices Shen Wei also cleaned. Shen Wei says he can consider it thanks for saving him in the alley.

(ah - this links up to Shen Wei cleaning again in a later episode in recompense, I think. so it was a running joke with them.)

"You stayed here all night?"

A valid question.

Alas, Shen Wei is unamused.

ZYL wakes up in the morning and immediately gets the crap scared out of him. I kinda think Shen Wei meant to do that on purpose.

Purple Hair almost gets stabbed with icicles (go Sang Zan) and says Sang Zan must have a connection to the cave to be able to do that.

*putting a pin in this for my Wang Zheng/Sang Zan/Sha Ya Live headcanon*

Blah blah, Purple Hair is in a cave with a mysterious glowing pillar, etc. (Not that Pillar. The other one.)

One thing here - he mocks The Person In The Pillar for forgetting how to speak after a hundred years sleep. Wonder how that affected Shen Wei? Or even Ye Zun?