[ The dead, named. Another in the girl Hermione's cage, and did that captive survive? Did they escape independent of each other, did the girl leave her companion in blood or bones?
Questions, absent answer. They navigate the corridors, ice prickling and cutting their feet, waters raising to Lan Wangji's midriff, and he thinks — more fool him, knowing the aqueducts, having but come of their territory — it will be a sink and a swim into certain segments of their journey, should they traverse them. Like ships, destined for wreckage, shattered by glaciers, and the dark, tarred slick gelid like flaked skins on the tubes. ]
The dead were contained beside you? [ A pause, then, hastened: ] How many in your... cage? A handful? More?
[ Awe and startle will distort the girl's memory, past loose indication, but it will do. It must do. ]
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Questions, absent answer. They navigate the corridors, ice prickling and cutting their feet, waters raising to Lan Wangji's midriff, and he thinks — more fool him, knowing the aqueducts, having but come of their territory — it will be a sink and a swim into certain segments of their journey, should they traverse them. Like ships, destined for wreckage, shattered by glaciers, and the dark, tarred slick gelid like flaked skins on the tubes. ]
The dead were contained beside you? [ A pause, then, hastened: ] How many in your... cage? A handful? More?
[ Awe and startle will distort the girl's memory, past loose indication, but it will do. It must do. ]