( He thinks, a child deserves better than this, the stormed turn of Lan Wangji's empty gaze, how it greys and stales — that Hermione, who is only ever despondency and the hot flame of her temper and indignation, whose yin is too unsettled, who wants for calm —
That the girl only attempts the impossible, and it is Lan Wangji and the dead creatures of the ship who drift aimlessly beside her, tending to the grazed holes of the vessel's wood and those of their long-emptied hearts. )
We only have you.
( What they've got is one resource, at the ready, her sorcery strong — but facing an entire vessel's decades-long decay, and it is no ruin of her, no failing, if Hermione cannot solve every trouble of the world.
If Lan Wangji, whose eyes shutter in perfect, still silence, then open bright and feline-like, extends two twined fingers and begrudgingly taps the inner softness of her elbow. Nearly a waste, to direct friendly wisps of qi that the girl lacks a core to amplify or put to use in a circuit — but it will do, at least, to rejuvenate her strength. )
Only a sip. ( A warning, to her or to himself. He cannot say. ) To tide you in your work.
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That the girl only attempts the impossible, and it is Lan Wangji and the dead creatures of the ship who drift aimlessly beside her, tending to the grazed holes of the vessel's wood and those of their long-emptied hearts. )
We only have you.
( What they've got is one resource, at the ready, her sorcery strong — but facing an entire vessel's decades-long decay, and it is no ruin of her, no failing, if Hermione cannot solve every trouble of the world.
If Lan Wangji, whose eyes shutter in perfect, still silence, then open bright and feline-like, extends two twined fingers and begrudgingly taps the inner softness of her elbow. Nearly a waste, to direct friendly wisps of qi that the girl lacks a core to amplify or put to use in a circuit — but it will do, at least, to rejuvenate her strength. )
Only a sip. ( A warning, to her or to himself. He cannot say. ) To tide you in your work.