[ Lan Xichen is determined not to be defeated by the strangeness of the city. The food and technology is a lot to adjust to, but he's been slowly allowing himself to try more things, despite knowing how inappropriate it would be to live without practiced restraint. After all, he's trying to enhance his abilities. Even if the city has some kind of restriction, when he returns home--which he still believes is possible--he'll already have catching up to do.
But that doesn't mean he can't take a look. This is for knowledge and experience, he insists to himself. When Lan Xichen enters the ice cream parlor, it's with a stride full of determination and energy. One that stops dead when he sees the little black cat on top of the counter, tail wrapped around an ice cream cone and eyes fixed on him. He draws back, hand going for an absent weapon, until he hears the voice. Or thinks he hears one. ]
Ah-?! How did you...?
[ He composes himself, forcing a calm expression back onto his face. ]
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But that doesn't mean he can't take a look. This is for knowledge and experience, he insists to himself. When Lan Xichen enters the ice cream parlor, it's with a stride full of determination and energy. One that stops dead when he sees the little black cat on top of the counter, tail wrapped around an ice cream cone and eyes fixed on him. He draws back, hand going for an absent weapon, until he hears the voice. Or thinks he hears one. ]
Ah-?! How did you...?
[ He composes himself, forcing a calm expression back onto his face. ]
Did you get lost here as well?