Let us hope they don't catch up. I'm weighing you down.
[He tries to lift his wounded arm to test its usefulness in case he does have to help protect them, but he's rewarded with a sharp pang, similar to what it had felt like when the wolf's claws had found purchase in his flesh. He sucks in a breath and gives up on that endeavor.
Thankfully Zhou Zishu finds some sort of shelter, a cave if their echoes are any indication, and Xingchen drags himself to lean against a wall. He puts up no fight when Zhou Zishu wants to look at his wound.]
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[He tries to lift his wounded arm to test its usefulness in case he does have to help protect them, but he's rewarded with a sharp pang, similar to what it had felt like when the wolf's claws had found purchase in his flesh. He sucks in a breath and gives up on that endeavor.
Thankfully Zhou Zishu finds some sort of shelter, a cave if their echoes are any indication, and Xingchen drags himself to lean against a wall. He puts up no fight when Zhou Zishu wants to look at his wound.]
It's still attached, right?
[A short, choked-off laugh.]