( The Motherless are not slaughtered outright, but two cords now stand ruptured. Fueled by Xie Lian's energy, the soldiers scour the lands for more, cruelly efficient in ways that suggest painstaking, laboured repetition.
They have done this before, taming the Motherless, restoring peace to the land. This may yet be their eternity. Lan Wangji, who has never felt the swell of mercy burdening his lungs past his ability to breathe, only murmurs at great distance, Thank you. )
They appear to... fabricate the fissures. To break through land and bring forth Hell. ( But then, precious nothing guarantees that they would not turn upon Rathakku's legions, once they gain control of land. It is a strange truce between the lord who waits and the hell he so covets. Perhaps that which he most desires would yet undo him.
And Lan Wangji concedes: )
Little betrays they would not cannibalise Rathakku's forces, also.
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( The Motherless are not slaughtered outright, but two cords now stand ruptured. Fueled by Xie Lian's energy, the soldiers scour the lands for more, cruelly efficient in ways that suggest painstaking, laboured repetition.
They have done this before, taming the Motherless, restoring peace to the land. This may yet be their eternity. Lan Wangji, who has never felt the swell of mercy burdening his lungs past his ability to breathe, only murmurs at great distance, Thank you. )
They appear to... fabricate the fissures. To break through land and bring forth Hell. ( But then, precious nothing guarantees that they would not turn upon Rathakku's legions, once they gain control of land. It is a strange truce between the lord who waits and the hell he so covets. Perhaps that which he most desires would yet undo him.
And Lan Wangji concedes: )
Little betrays they would not cannibalise Rathakku's forces, also.