( An archer's eye. But then, he never cultivated the renown, and it shrouds him like patina, a poisoned colour. More association. More notes. Temenos flits from place to place like a collector assessing the worthiness of his latest, rarest finding.
Lan Wangji studiously follows, hand strapped firmly behind his back. Watch, wait, learn. Let others speak. Patience. )
What difference?
( No. No time for philosophy. For petty. paltry conversation. He walks the room and extends the slow, delicate tendrils of his qi energies to greet whatever of the dead might linger — only to find little noteworthy past the anticipated echoes and tremulations of a house so long lived that it might, soon, itself breathe. )
You have retrieved clothing from each person painted? ( And softer: ) Some cloth burned.
( And so, regrettably, the colours might no longer match what is depicted in the portraits. )
no subject
( An archer's eye. But then, he never cultivated the renown, and it shrouds him like patina, a poisoned colour. More association. More notes. Temenos flits from place to place like a collector assessing the worthiness of his latest, rarest finding.
Lan Wangji studiously follows, hand strapped firmly behind his back. Watch, wait, learn. Let others speak. Patience. )
What difference?
( No. No time for philosophy. For petty. paltry conversation. He walks the room and extends the slow, delicate tendrils of his qi energies to greet whatever of the dead might linger — only to find little noteworthy past the anticipated echoes and tremulations of a house so long lived that it might, soon, itself breathe. )
You have retrieved clothing from each person painted? ( And softer: ) Some cloth burned.
( And so, regrettably, the colours might no longer match what is depicted in the portraits. )