downswing: (tide will break)
ʟᴀɴ ᴡᴀɴɢᴊɪ | 蓝忘机 ([personal profile] downswing) wrote in [community profile] westwhere 2024-02-11 08:41 pm (UTC)


Wei Wuxian is a man of Yunmeng. ( Teasing, all play. ) I cannot learn his sword work.

( A wretched thing, they say, to pick up the learnings of another sect and taint the balance achieved by mastering a style of sword forms. Focus is only one. Slivered, divided, it takes away from what could be achieved through sheer single-mindedness, in one art.

His perfection of the strengths of Gusu Lan — balance, musicality, solidity — would only be at best superfluous and at worst detracting, if he were to glean the techniques of Lotus Pier.

He releases Wei Ying, if only to regain control of his foothold and center himself carefully. Ahead, the hounds of Wei Ying's hell, his spirit creatures, assail more cruelly, more blood-thirsting than Lan Wangji ever could.

They should not think these men spared for not meeting the Patriarch. His children will do. )


Will you keep one alive? ( It strikes him, for once, that this is a negotiation. That Wei Ying, who refuses him nothing out of habit may well decline this. ) To learn reasons.


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