Xunxian is between two visitors, planning for a next trip, when another crab crawls up his leg. Instead of leaping in panic or anything like that, he siply reaches a finger to stroke gently along the shelled back. "Hello, little friend. How are you today?" Then he smiles, the answer clear to him and, belinke, nobody else.
But also he and Moran sleep undisturbed by them at night.
ii. the drifting - the haunting
It is the first time that is the worst. For a moment, he actually thinks that their young friend is there, so he rushes after him. "Shang Yu!"
But then Shang Yu does not turn back, and a sweet lady turns and reassures him that he is fast enough, he would get away from any danger, and Xunxian freeze, wide-eyed.
Then he runs after the figure walking away, but even though Shang Yu never uses his power, Xunxian can't catch up, until he trips and crumbles to the ground, the tiny stain of blood from the scratch on his palm against the rocks remindig him of the much larger stain they found him in...
Of the characters he had laboriously written in his own blood on the ground. Xunxian squeezes his eyes shut and punches the ground. He isn't sure who is doing it, or why, but he knows exactly how likely it is that that was not actually Shang Yu, but instead something to make him remember.
Knowing does not mean that it hurts any less.
iii. (don't) hold your breath
As a leach is about to bite into you, there is suddenly an elegant hand that reaches to gently pick it up. "Hello, little one."
Xunxian makes a bit of a face as he gets the bite, but smile up.
"Go on ahead. They won't hurt me too badly, anyway." And he is still not nearly good enough in a fight, if there is one.
Su Xunxian | Oh! My Emperor | old timer | cw: memory of a death in second prompt, blood
Xunxian is between two visitors, planning for a next trip, when another crab crawls up his leg. Instead of leaping in panic or anything like that, he siply reaches a finger to stroke gently along the shelled back. "Hello, little friend. How are you today?" Then he smiles, the answer clear to him and, belinke, nobody else.
But also he and Moran sleep undisturbed by them at night.
ii. the drifting - the haunting
It is the first time that is the worst. For a moment, he actually thinks that their young friend is there, so he rushes after him. "Shang Yu!"
But then Shang Yu does not turn back, and a sweet lady turns and reassures him that he is fast enough, he would get away from any danger, and Xunxian freeze, wide-eyed.
Then he runs after the figure walking away, but even though Shang Yu never uses his power, Xunxian can't catch up, until he trips and crumbles to the ground, the tiny stain of blood from the scratch on his palm against the rocks remindig him of the much larger stain they found him in...
Of the characters he had laboriously written in his own blood on the ground. Xunxian squeezes his eyes shut and punches the ground. He isn't sure who is doing it, or why, but he knows exactly how likely it is that that was not actually Shang Yu, but instead something to make him remember.
Knowing does not mean that it hurts any less.
iii. (don't) hold your breath
As a leach is about to bite into you, there is suddenly an elegant hand that reaches to gently pick it up. "Hello, little one."
Xunxian makes a bit of a face as he gets the bite, but smile up.
"Go on ahead. They won't hurt me too badly, anyway." And he is still not nearly good enough in a fight, if there is one.
iv. wildcard
Or poke at him with something else.