[ The cord, severed by a chord, swings uselessly back through the air as his whip of raw magic, loosed of tension, slaps down to the ground.
He releases it from existence with a break of the spell, attention turning to Lan Wangji (who catches himself, fine) then back to the Motherless to watch it crease with a howling he can't hear. It straightens again, twisting away to nurse a wound that won't be so easily healed, and only once he's seen it far enough gone that he can confidently say it isn't coming back in any amount of time they can't rally in does he close that spare eye once more and confirm - ]
It's done.
[ Not well done, necessarily, not executed with the kind of specificity that was going to guarantee them freedom from a second try... but done. Given the two men involved in this particular bout of teamwork, he might almost consider it a best case scenario. ]
You're alright?
[ Safe to ask now that the answer has any bearing on whether or not Stephen could do anything about it. His charge, calmed in the absence of immediate doom, now only tremors its way through a swift recovery in the crook of his elbow. ]
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He releases it from existence with a break of the spell, attention turning to Lan Wangji (who catches himself, fine) then back to the Motherless to watch it crease with a howling he can't hear. It straightens again, twisting away to nurse a wound that won't be so easily healed, and only once he's seen it far enough gone that he can confidently say it isn't coming back in any amount of time they can't rally in does he close that spare eye once more and confirm - ]
It's done.
[ Not well done, necessarily, not executed with the kind of specificity that was going to guarantee them freedom from a second try... but done. Given the two men involved in this particular bout of teamwork, he might almost consider it a best case scenario. ]
You're alright?
[ Safe to ask now that the answer has any bearing on whether or not Stephen could do anything about it. His charge, calmed in the absence of immediate doom, now only tremors its way through a swift recovery in the crook of his elbow. ]