( There's a grim, gravelly, crackling energy to the Gut's Bind, a sense of overflow and anticipation. Cloying, claustrophobic, filthied. He does not walk these grounds as a matter of leisure, only one of final, regretted recourse.
The paladins that rescue seals from dregs and direct the better part of their energies to same purpose mill and storm the caves and corridors, their sorcery flooding around them. He hesitates — prioritises, desperately, not to interrupt their paths, or violate the integrity of their magical balance through his presence alone.
In the midst of affording them a wide berth, he neglects to lend the same to the man he collides with, haphazardly, hand scattering invisible motes of dust and decay — before he knows the look of him, the blunt cut of his jaw, the arm — )
...Bucky. ( As Wanda named him. Not 'bucket,' but the approximation. ) The caves?
( They had — allowed the possibility to percolate into a plan, clumsy but well-intending. Lan Wangji yet wants his cutting wire, and if Bucky is already haunting these grounds, then surely he must be here, to the same purpose. )
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( There's a grim, gravelly, crackling energy to the Gut's Bind, a sense of overflow and anticipation. Cloying, claustrophobic, filthied. He does not walk these grounds as a matter of leisure, only one of final, regretted recourse.
The paladins that rescue seals from dregs and direct the better part of their energies to same purpose mill and storm the caves and corridors, their sorcery flooding around them. He hesitates — prioritises, desperately, not to interrupt their paths, or violate the integrity of their magical balance through his presence alone.
In the midst of affording them a wide berth, he neglects to lend the same to the man he collides with, haphazardly, hand scattering invisible motes of dust and decay — before he knows the look of him, the blunt cut of his jaw, the arm — )
...Bucky. ( As Wanda named him. Not 'bucket,' but the approximation. ) The caves?
( They had — allowed the possibility to percolate into a plan, clumsy but well-intending. Lan Wangji yet wants his cutting wire, and if Bucky is already haunting these grounds, then surely he must be here, to the same purpose. )