( There are moments in time and space and begrudging adventure when one must take Five for his numerous demerits and absenteeing virtues and accept him for who and what he is. When one must grit one's teeth and bear with him and his misplaced humour, because surely a young unrelated girl, no matter how fragile, is not one's husband.
Speaking, naturally, in abstracts. Lacking Lan Wangji's own stakes in this. Traipsing on. )
Does she flee her father, or is she incapable to linger here? Removed?
( Could it be one of Matthias' other wayward children defies him, abducting his daughter from under the man's nose, on his own territories? Unlikely, surely. And yet. )
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( There are moments in time and space and begrudging adventure when one must take Five for his numerous demerits and absenteeing virtues and accept him for who and what he is. When one must grit one's teeth and bear with him and his misplaced humour, because surely a young unrelated girl, no matter how fragile, is not one's husband.
Speaking, naturally, in abstracts. Lacking Lan Wangji's own stakes in this. Traipsing on. )
Does she flee her father, or is she incapable to linger here? Removed?
( Could it be one of Matthias' other wayward children defies him, abducting his daughter from under the man's nose, on his own territories? Unlikely, surely. And yet. )