( You did not pay. Hand wavering, neither did Lan Wangji. The railing crackles, tears. Wet rot and strength of a man rebuilt from memory of graces, divorced from etiquettes.
Sumeragi Subaru paid the coin of their passage. Others sustain their worth on deck. For how he sniffs and prowls by masts and sails' cloth, Wei Ying too chases phantasms to bind, to break, to marry, to take for children. Unsophisticated, Sizhui accepts every exorcism he can complete kindly. Xie Lian, no doubt, breaks his morning meal with ghosts. )
Were you shortchanged?
( The high-pitched moaning of a grey, unseen sea bird thrills and excruciates him. His skin pebbles, back bowed like a spattered arc of wave spumes. And behind him —
'Fire stalled?'
'Aaaaaaaaaaye, siiiiiiir!'
— Emilia's madness of skill, deployed at Lan Wangji's own instruction. )
no subject
( You did not pay. Hand wavering, neither did Lan Wangji. The railing crackles, tears. Wet rot and strength of a man rebuilt from memory of graces, divorced from etiquettes.
Sumeragi Subaru paid the coin of their passage. Others sustain their worth on deck. For how he sniffs and prowls by masts and sails' cloth, Wei Ying too chases phantasms to bind, to break, to marry, to take for children. Unsophisticated, Sizhui accepts every exorcism he can complete kindly. Xie Lian, no doubt, breaks his morning meal with ghosts. )
Were you shortchanged?
( The high-pitched moaning of a grey, unseen sea bird thrills and excruciates him. His skin pebbles, back bowed like a spattered arc of wave spumes. And behind him —
'Fire stalled?'
'Aaaaaaaaaaye, siiiiiiir!'
— Emilia's madness of skill, deployed at Lan Wangji's own instruction. )