downswing: (guillotine)
ʟᴀɴ ᴡᴀɴɢᴊɪ | 蓝忘机 ([personal profile] downswing) wrote in [community profile] prismaticrap 2020-01-15 11:08 pm (UTC)

[ He has filled his time with intruders and nuisance, with Wei Wuxian's infinite talent for mischief beyond the average man's ken. With truths he should not know, destinies he should not face, battles that were not his to begin, let alone end.

He has done none of the atonement owned, and all of the sins that earned it. Yes, he has filled his time. But they are gentlemen, or at the very least — doctor and acquaintance, and so they must politely migrate away from the oceanic depths of an honest answer, and into the safe certainty of platitudes.

Wangji, for his part, starts the play with a nod. Yes, he has filled his time. No, it suits neither of them to focus excessively on his — distractions.

Besides, there is a plainer question, revealed in the twitch of the healing master's body, the eradicative brush of his hand on his forehead. Fright. No, the far bitterer drain of marrow-deep dread. ]


How many spirits have you encountered?

[ Before, when the trauma was born, the instinct to beware ghosts first nurtured. ]

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