( Avoid the vendor, whose mouth widens slack and disbelieving, who watches his customer's audacity bloom like a comet before it rains debris down on cold earth, scattering. Blood will be shed here.
...it comes, first, from above. And Lan Wangji, who has learned the tells of a foregone conclusion, who would wage war with anyone and win, except perhaps the elements — draws himself closer to the fine stretch of eaves of the nearby bazaar stall, and decides it is practical, diplomatic and wise to interject in this retail crisis before it progresses further, and his shelter is compromised.
Naturally, because he loathes injustice. Not getting soaked. )
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( Avoid the vendor, whose mouth widens slack and disbelieving, who watches his customer's audacity bloom like a comet before it rains debris down on cold earth, scattering. Blood will be shed here.
...it comes, first, from above. And Lan Wangji, who has learned the tells of a foregone conclusion, who would wage war with anyone and win, except perhaps the elements — draws himself closer to the fine stretch of eaves of the nearby bazaar stall, and decides it is practical, diplomatic and wise to interject in this retail crisis before it progresses further, and his shelter is compromised.
Naturally, because he loathes injustice. Not getting soaked. )
Yet consumed, despite misgivings.
( The gentleman, he protests too much. )