( Someone. Perhaps a friend. An enemy. An unlikely, third-party, unrelated saviour. He cannot divine the nature or circumstance that terminated Bucky's enslavement, only — and here, his gaze walks the man's features, the cut of his cheekbones — be graciously, tacitly thankful.
He kills too well to be made weapon, to start. And there is a hurt in purposing a man only to slaughter.
No use in platitudes, in Lan Wangji filling silence only to satisfy his private need to dispel the embarrassment left in the wake of their conversation. Instead, soft: )
...you caught fish. ( Or at least, something is tugging. )
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( Someone. Perhaps a friend. An enemy. An unlikely, third-party, unrelated saviour. He cannot divine the nature or circumstance that terminated Bucky's enslavement, only — and here, his gaze walks the man's features, the cut of his cheekbones — be graciously, tacitly thankful.
He kills too well to be made weapon, to start. And there is a hurt in purposing a man only to slaughter.
No use in platitudes, in Lan Wangji filling silence only to satisfy his private need to dispel the embarrassment left in the wake of their conversation. Instead, soft: )
...you caught fish. ( Or at least, something is tugging. )