( Where else, for years? For half of an eternity? Foreseeably?
He does not speak the words, cannot presume to batter and bruise another man's peace so ruthlessly. For all the... oddities of his nature, Hua Cheng is still challenged by the heart of a simple man.
It must ache, surely, to think of Xie Lian — who has ever required no patron, no assistance, no caretaker — alone in a sea of people. Lan Wangji's own would, absent the surety that Wei Ying is attended.
He raises his hand, fist closed around the dice again, to signal another number must be spoken. Come, come. All in the game. )
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( Where else, for years? For half of an eternity? Foreseeably?
He does not speak the words, cannot presume to batter and bruise another man's peace so ruthlessly. For all the... oddities of his nature, Hua Cheng is still challenged by the heart of a simple man.
It must ache, surely, to think of Xie Lian — who has ever required no patron, no assistance, no caretaker — alone in a sea of people. Lan Wangji's own would, absent the surety that Wei Ying is attended.
He raises his hand, fist closed around the dice again, to signal another number must be spoken. Come, come. All in the game. )
In health and in peace. His meals... as ever.