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ʟᴀɴ ᴡᴀɴɢᴊɪ | 蓝忘机 ([personal profile] downswing) wrote in [community profile] westwhere 2022-03-06 10:13 pm (UTC)

( He is better than the slip of his gritting teeth, friction ennobling his voice with the grind of irritation. )

Did you think the task facile?

( That exorcists and cultivators and the wayward sons of petty sects thrived off an absence of talent and a benediction of routine? That any part of their work lacked guile?

No matter. She shivers, body recalling the small rituals of wakefulness — the gasps, the moans, the crawl of angered claws on ground — before its pains. When she bolts up, fierce, the silvered length of Bichen already walks hairs' breadths before her neck, urging her still, so very still. )


This is why. Better not to murder first.

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