( If all that it breeds and harvests and nurtures is — a continuation. Worse, a deterioration. The slow erosion of the self, virtues and manners stripped from one's person. Kindness. Grace.
She tightens like a coil, a snake. History dictates, that which pulls back before aggression typically strikes with doubled force. His brows perk, thin, readied — mouth soft, eager.
Behind and beside them, civilians clutter to welcome their returned, some weeping, others cursing the fate that has only brought them one son back, and not the second. Empty agitation. War does not belong to its survivors. )
You offered no name. ( Then again, neither did Lan Wangji. )
no subject
What use survival without hope?
( If all that it breeds and harvests and nurtures is — a continuation. Worse, a deterioration. The slow erosion of the self, virtues and manners stripped from one's person. Kindness. Grace.
She tightens like a coil, a snake. History dictates, that which pulls back before aggression typically strikes with doubled force. His brows perk, thin, readied — mouth soft, eager.
Behind and beside them, civilians clutter to welcome their returned, some weeping, others cursing the fate that has only brought them one son back, and not the second. Empty agitation. War does not belong to its survivors. )
You offered no name. ( Then again, neither did Lan Wangji. )