( ...how. Yes. The logistics of coaxing the dead are ever a matter of chance and experiment, seldom one of skill. He could lie and entertain the arrogance that seducing Cassandra forward is a matter of method — hardly, never so.
Instead, he waves Lockwood nearer for a conference of minds: ) Speak to her. Signal her close. Be safe-seeming, as with young rabbits.
( ...yes, his animal-children of choice. And what of it? Spirits are no stronger, no more entrenched in this world. They require kind, gentle and stubborn invitation, not unlike children or timid creatures. )
She will hear. They ever hear. ( ...they do not always heed. But then, unlike Cassandra, they know Tykhe to be volatile, and Lan Wangji would sooner trust himself with that gamble. )
no subject
( ...how. Yes. The logistics of coaxing the dead are ever a matter of chance and experiment, seldom one of skill. He could lie and entertain the arrogance that seducing Cassandra forward is a matter of method — hardly, never so.
Instead, he waves Lockwood nearer for a conference of minds: ) Speak to her. Signal her close. Be safe-seeming, as with young rabbits.
( ...yes, his animal-children of choice. And what of it? Spirits are no stronger, no more entrenched in this world. They require kind, gentle and stubborn invitation, not unlike children or timid creatures. )
She will hear. They ever hear. ( ...they do not always heed. But then, unlike Cassandra, they know Tykhe to be volatile, and Lan Wangji would sooner trust himself with that gamble. )