( The giving and receipt of thanks, the formulaic, pretend-politesse of formalised gratitude. They both know: Lan Wangji is not a creature of innate gratitude, too covetous, too wrathful, too visceral. And Wrath is — Wrath, shaped human, but Lan Wangji expects, more a culmination and aggregate of power, than a being of the world.
What point then, pretending they are mannered? He shrugs once, one shoulder only answering the summons, the other stiff, restive. Turning a hand to it reveals the work of battery, some bruising. More hurts his body incurred, but that tired, exerted nerves did not record.
...Wrath's... creature presents itself, cadaver in its trifecta of hungering mouths, and Lan Wangji mutely gags, impossibly repulsed. )
Retain the shard. ( But then, he supposes, an explanation is ever necessary. ) Its energies disapprove of mine.
no subject
...unnecessary between us.
( The giving and receipt of thanks, the formulaic, pretend-politesse of formalised gratitude. They both know: Lan Wangji is not a creature of innate gratitude, too covetous, too wrathful, too visceral. And Wrath is — Wrath, shaped human, but Lan Wangji expects, more a culmination and aggregate of power, than a being of the world.
What point then, pretending they are mannered? He shrugs once, one shoulder only answering the summons, the other stiff, restive. Turning a hand to it reveals the work of battery, some bruising. More hurts his body incurred, but that tired, exerted nerves did not record.
...Wrath's... creature presents itself, cadaver in its trifecta of hungering mouths, and Lan Wangji mutely gags, impossibly repulsed. )
Retain the shard. ( But then, he supposes, an explanation is ever necessary. ) Its energies disapprove of mine.
( ...corrupt them, as things are. )