( Best, at all times, to let five things exhaust themselves sooner than set yourself a losing quarrel, seeking to contain them: fire, wailing winds, dead-winter's snow and the rattlings of the earth — and women seeking answer.
No, he does not intercede — only drifts along, an echo of her shadow and a quiet note of dissonance in billow silks, on a pier where men keep their leathers, their belts and their thoughts bound.
And she screams at the protector, or watcher, or curse-caster, who does not turn away Screams, as if courtesy and greetings might seduce him to politesse. Screams, and — He will not answer. — Lan Wangji whispers in the man's stead: )
Deadened things oft cannot hear. ( A pause, drawn thin. ) He likely eludes this world.
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( Best, at all times, to let five things exhaust themselves sooner than set yourself a losing quarrel, seeking to contain them: fire, wailing winds, dead-winter's snow and the rattlings of the earth — and women seeking answer.
No, he does not intercede — only drifts along, an echo of her shadow and a quiet note of dissonance in billow silks, on a pier where men keep their leathers, their belts and their thoughts bound.
And she screams at the protector, or watcher, or curse-caster, who does not turn away Screams, as if courtesy and greetings might seduce him to politesse. Screams, and — He will not answer. — Lan Wangji whispers in the man's stead: )
Deadened things oft cannot hear. ( A pause, drawn thin. ) He likely eludes this world.