( There are good ways to do things: thoughtful ways that will not startle.
Then there's Wei Wuxian's way of doing things, which is not strictly lacking thoughtfulness, but perhaps lacking certain trains of thought. But with runaway horses and nothing to cut one down with, and no understanding of the workings of a mechanical creature, he does what he can with what he has.
Thus Wen Kexing, apropos of nothing and with no warning but the song on the wind, finds a black shadow coalescing enough to slam into the horse's shoulder, starting to send it careening away from the canyon wall and pushing on. Any spiritual sensitivity will tell him with no doubt that the mass of shadow is comprise of resentful, human energies; and that their resentment is aching to turn toward something other than helping divert a mechanical horse from smashing itself against the canyon walls. )
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Then there's Wei Wuxian's way of doing things, which is not strictly lacking thoughtfulness, but perhaps lacking certain trains of thought. But with runaway horses and nothing to cut one down with, and no understanding of the workings of a mechanical creature, he does what he can with what he has.
Thus Wen Kexing, apropos of nothing and with no warning but the song on the wind, finds a black shadow coalescing enough to slam into the horse's shoulder, starting to send it careening away from the canyon wall and pushing on. Any spiritual sensitivity will tell him with no doubt that the mass of shadow is comprise of resentful, human energies; and that their resentment is aching to turn toward something other than helping divert a mechanical horse from smashing itself against the canyon walls. )