Well, if I'd left it behind, I would have had to perfectly calculate our trajectory in advance... this way seemed safer.

[ but yeah, he's gotta return this shit. somewhat reluctantly, he climbs down from yan qing's arms, then goes inside to get his wand. and then he makes the poker float gracefully down through the air and back to its place next to the tabletop fire pit, where it either lands with a clatter or a weird thump (if there happened to be someone out there looking for it who it landed on instead). ]

Now all is well!
Let's go inside and shut the doors.