( Pride. Fear. Survival, driven to extreme. Greed, grown great. He can name a thousand reasons, one more shallow than the next. It exhausts him, this constant and all-assailing need to justify an animal, misplaced instinct.
He watches men feed and feast and take their pleasure of dubiously willing bodies, watches the world spread gilded at their feet — and them, ignorant of what sleeps prettily before them.
And then there is Five, validating the worst of Lan Wangji's suspicions: men who receive that which they wish for are ultimately never satisfied. Worldly possessions are as naught, in the face of destruction. )
...I am sorry. For your loss. ( What are sixteen years of mourning one man, compared with forty-five of grieving humanity? )
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( Pride. Fear. Survival, driven to extreme. Greed, grown great. He can name a thousand reasons, one more shallow than the next. It exhausts him, this constant and all-assailing need to justify an animal, misplaced instinct.
He watches men feed and feast and take their pleasure of dubiously willing bodies, watches the world spread gilded at their feet — and them, ignorant of what sleeps prettily before them.
And then there is Five, validating the worst of Lan Wangji's suspicions: men who receive that which they wish for are ultimately never satisfied. Worldly possessions are as naught, in the face of destruction. )
...I am sorry. For your loss. ( What are sixteen years of mourning one man, compared with forty-five of grieving humanity? )