"It's not that, it's..." He hasn't made up with his Wei Ying, and he has been in the pool mulling over it, beating himself up over it and not getting over it. He didn't want to make a bad impression on this one too.

Mark your words when you said, whatever you want. Such words make Lan Wangji slowly coming out of his shell and talk more. "I do like your company if you don't mind it. We can think of something to do later on when AC unit came back on. I don't know what, but it will be something..." Something. He can't think much, not with how much humid it is.

"I don't know. Perhaps, maybe answers from the Queen. A way out of Wonderland. Getting our spiritual powers back."