Consumed or traded. ( A simple, blunt-edged, foul conclusion. But factual, he anticipates: there is no honour among thieves and sellers of intimate possessions — flesh, souls, memories.
He watches a string of silhouettes cut their way down the streets, eyes downcast, and does not think to question whether they fear this amputation of their person, whatever the wish maker must surgically remove to fulfil them in ways likely desperate and little known. Is it worth it? A woman slithers out through a crooked door with a low, splintered sob. )
These are not kind places. ( Men, he needn't say, should not have what they desire. But then, it strikes him — ) Your will be done. Let us speak to a wish maker.
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Consumed or traded. ( A simple, blunt-edged, foul conclusion. But factual, he anticipates: there is no honour among thieves and sellers of intimate possessions — flesh, souls, memories.
He watches a string of silhouettes cut their way down the streets, eyes downcast, and does not think to question whether they fear this amputation of their person, whatever the wish maker must surgically remove to fulfil them in ways likely desperate and little known. Is it worth it? A woman slithers out through a crooked door with a low, splintered sob. )
These are not kind places. ( Men, he needn't say, should not have what they desire. But then, it strikes him — ) Your will be done. Let us speak to a wish maker.
( — Lan Wangji too has a wish that burns him. )