[ One sword, and wielders two, and they do not speak of skill, not as gentlemen — but they must think it.
And then, there is the... complication, a line of steel or reflective make, and Lan Wangji does not gasp, precisely, nor gape, nor imitate the finer mannerisms of the common fish when the young man presents his... weapon. He considers it, though. There are merits to being a pedestrian salmon.
One of them is not beholding a hair stick before the task of sharpening arrows, and mulling whether the young man intends Wangji ridicule, or if perhaps his tactical or logistical genius extends well past Lan Wangji's ken.
( He recalls, distantly, to try his wound for fresh bleeding, palm wrecked with drying flakes of red thereafter. Better. )
First things first: cautiously, against a symphony of resumed howls, of deep scratches: ]
no subject
And then, there is the... complication, a line of steel or reflective make, and Lan Wangji does not gasp, precisely, nor gape, nor imitate the finer mannerisms of the common fish when the young man presents his... weapon. He considers it, though. There are merits to being a pedestrian salmon.
One of them is not beholding a hair stick before the task of sharpening arrows, and mulling whether the young man intends Wangji ridicule, or if perhaps his tactical or logistical genius extends well past Lan Wangji's ken.
( He recalls, distantly, to try his wound for fresh bleeding, palm wrecked with drying flakes of red thereafter. Better. )
First things first: cautiously, against a symphony of resumed howls, of deep scratches: ]
You gave no name.