But he stands after that, heading to the alcove with the small banked embers and the pot for water to make tea, looking for grasses to feed into it, coaxing along the small flame. He adds water to the small pot, looking for the cups.
"Do you still have the cups from earlier out?"
In this case, it's one conversation that the brothers need to have for each other. This isn't the insight to a life lived that the other party simply can't know without someone speaking. Lan Zhan struggles communicating what he assumes people will intuit or understand, and sometimes they do. The times they don't, those are the ones where... a little clarity is useful.
Yet he'll make his brother-in-law tea. Even if he's already had tea. Because that's what you do.
no subject
"When did anyone say he had?"
But he stands after that, heading to the alcove with the small banked embers and the pot for water to make tea, looking for grasses to feed into it, coaxing along the small flame. He adds water to the small pot, looking for the cups.
"Do you still have the cups from earlier out?"
In this case, it's one conversation that the brothers need to have for each other. This isn't the insight to a life lived that the other party simply can't know without someone speaking. Lan Zhan struggles communicating what he assumes people will intuit or understand, and sometimes they do. The times they don't, those are the ones where... a little clarity is useful.
Yet he'll make his brother-in-law tea. Even if he's already had tea. Because that's what you do.