( Action outstrips intent. Were Anduin his disciple, he might say —
But then, they are not ribbon-bound, or fate-forged, or chained, or familiars. No intimacy stretches taut and cloying between them. But Anduin asks, and in a friendless world of pox-saddled faces and callused hands and sickness and poverty wherever they glance in the village, Anduin is king and saviour.
A man's back still casts long shadow where he slinks and steps, dislodging morsels of gravel in his withdrawal. And will his mother-in-law drown? There are crimes even cultivation cannot hope to prevent or acquit. )
The halls of my home are silent. ( There, worlds away, where his mother's ancestral jingshi residence sleeps erected between winter's breaths, bright-white and pristine and irreverently stalwart. There, where Lan Wangji is whole and not sum of parts, not a futile weapon occasionally lent purpose in Wei Ying's hands. ) Disruptions —
( Agitates him like a stormed sea. Poisons his temper. Amplifies a spate of perennial migraines. )
Ill suit me. ( Or that. ) Apologies. You attended to him alone.
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But then, they are not ribbon-bound, or fate-forged, or chained, or familiars. No intimacy stretches taut and cloying between them. But Anduin asks, and in a friendless world of pox-saddled faces and callused hands and sickness and poverty wherever they glance in the village, Anduin is king and saviour.
A man's back still casts long shadow where he slinks and steps, dislodging morsels of gravel in his withdrawal. And will his mother-in-law drown? There are crimes even cultivation cannot hope to prevent or acquit. )
The halls of my home are silent. ( There, worlds away, where his mother's ancestral jingshi residence sleeps erected between winter's breaths, bright-white and pristine and irreverently stalwart. There, where Lan Wangji is whole and not sum of parts, not a futile weapon occasionally lent purpose in Wei Ying's hands. ) Disruptions —
( Agitates him like a stormed sea. Poisons his temper. Amplifies a spate of perennial migraines. )
Ill suit me. ( Or that. ) Apologies. You attended to him alone.