( Ah, but he is slow to ease, to fall into the trappings of informality, bend of his back already carefully positioned into a rehearsed bow. When he recovers, looser-limbed, it is to transgress with a conclusion: )
No debts between us.
( ...but then, she excused him of the creature's burden, where he only ensnared them further in the lake's depths. He frowns, imperceptible, weak. )
Your... sorcery. What did it achieve? ( It thrust the creature off Wangji's trail. Delivered him to safety. And then? )
no subject
( Ah, but he is slow to ease, to fall into the trappings of informality, bend of his back already carefully positioned into a rehearsed bow. When he recovers, looser-limbed, it is to transgress with a conclusion: )
No debts between us.
( ...but then, she excused him of the creature's burden, where he only ensnared them further in the lake's depths. He frowns, imperceptible, weak. )
Your... sorcery. What did it achieve? ( It thrust the creature off Wangji's trail. Delivered him to safety. And then? )