( It is not for want of resolving their troubles, only for the gift of misplaced sympathies, the graceless, generous fount of Anduin's kindness. They have not earned succour, nor offered payment. They crawl at their gates like vermin, come sweltered summers, uncaring for who opens the doors.
Mere days ago, they looked upon Lan Wangji as the new occupant of this all-hailed house and thought nothing of his youth, his foreign dress, his silence — only weighed him, first with greetings, then with secrets like a feverish spill, before stays could be spoken. He might have been anyone. No one. He might barely have been a sketch of himself. A monster.
Perhaps he is, for how he plays Anduin like a stone of weiqi. )
Some merely wish to be heard.
( If the gods smile, perhaps even listened to. And of the two, for they are paired, and the dregs of Lan Wangji's migraine still storm his temples, he knows who is better fitted for tasks of conversation. Besides, and this is where the duty is better acquitted with a honeyed smile and laughter — )
You may yet glean better knowledge of them. ( It is easier to like and befriend a golden prince than a statue of jade who does honour to his name. This is known. Lan Wangji will not refute it. )
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Mere days ago, they looked upon Lan Wangji as the new occupant of this all-hailed house and thought nothing of his youth, his foreign dress, his silence — only weighed him, first with greetings, then with secrets like a feverish spill, before stays could be spoken. He might have been anyone. No one. He might barely have been a sketch of himself. A monster.
Perhaps he is, for how he plays Anduin like a stone of weiqi. )
Some merely wish to be heard.
( If the gods smile, perhaps even listened to. And of the two, for they are paired, and the dregs of Lan Wangji's migraine still storm his temples, he knows who is better fitted for tasks of conversation. Besides, and this is where the duty is better acquitted with a honeyed smile and laughter — )
You may yet glean better knowledge of them. ( It is easier to like and befriend a golden prince than a statue of jade who does honour to his name. This is known. Lan Wangji will not refute it. )