( Only a heartbeat ago, his qi hadn't righted its courses, hadn't shifted to recalibrate towards healing. Now, all is correcting in a world where he can pin one step after the next, and the wailing pulse of his migraine disappears like a ripened bruise that shifts to pallor, to nothingness, gone. )
If you can stay my step, we cease progress.
( And his brow perches, meaning limpid: Can you? With respect to her dignity, her stature, in the grand scale of obstacles worth clearing, Clara ranks squarely above dust motes and beneath pebbles. And Lan Wangji — grip loose — is yet armed. )
I go north.
( Accompanied or alone.
North, then. He starts, alone — clumsy, slow, one hand on the stair's rail, but climbing. If they have time to banter, they've time to see their deed done. )
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( Only a heartbeat ago, his qi hadn't righted its courses, hadn't shifted to recalibrate towards healing. Now, all is correcting in a world where he can pin one step after the next, and the wailing pulse of his migraine disappears like a ripened bruise that shifts to pallor, to nothingness, gone. )
If you can stay my step, we cease progress.
( And his brow perches, meaning limpid: Can you? With respect to her dignity, her stature, in the grand scale of obstacles worth clearing, Clara ranks squarely above dust motes and beneath pebbles. And Lan Wangji — grip loose — is yet armed. )
I go north.
( Accompanied or alone.
North, then. He starts, alone — clumsy, slow, one hand on the stair's rail, but climbing. If they have time to banter, they've time to see their deed done. )