Later he will remember retaining at least this grace — that she had a look of silent, withered wondered, and he stepped closer until they both gazed into the vast, gasping horizon of the shattered, decrepit greenhouse. That his hand trembled near hers, burned with the dissolving heat of her proximity. That their fingers voyaged close, circled the possibility, but he did not intrude in the way he has so often inflicted the proprietary violence of his touch unasked on Wei Ying.
He snaps his arm behind his back, folded. Straightens his posture, uncoils his thoughts. Thinks, in the rapid unspooling of the room before them, ghostly and ungainly and grey, and tries to identify how it is that the room startles them.
Softened, he decides: ) It seeks to intimidate us into withdrawal.
no subject
( He does not touch her.
Later he will remember retaining at least this grace — that she had a look of silent, withered wondered, and he stepped closer until they both gazed into the vast, gasping horizon of the shattered, decrepit greenhouse. That his hand trembled near hers, burned with the dissolving heat of her proximity. That their fingers voyaged close, circled the possibility, but he did not intrude in the way he has so often inflicted the proprietary violence of his touch unasked on Wei Ying.
He snaps his arm behind his back, folded. Straightens his posture, uncoils his thoughts. Thinks, in the rapid unspooling of the room before them, ghostly and ungainly and grey, and tries to identify how it is that the room startles them.
Softened, he decides: ) It seeks to intimidate us into withdrawal.