Damon listens and plots. BRILLIANTLY.
Wen Ning recognizes what is happening. He is being confessed to. This happens to him, sometimes. There is something about him that makes people tell him secrets, although he doesn't think he does anything to encourage this. His sister used to say he had trust-worthy proportions, which people could naturally see. Since she had never read his fate in his face, this doesn't seem too reliable.
Wen Ning encounters Lan Xichen, and they discuss trees. A secret is shared.
And it's so beautiful / that you can't catch the fire.
Set in an AU where Ghirahim rises from the lowly Fool of the Demon King Releris to the ruler of all the Lower Realms. But as the demon lord tries to destroy the Seal and take the sunlit lands of the surface for the demons, he encounters resistance...
I'm rewriting The Courtship of Princess Leia to be good, actually.
In Seaburgh, Henry Long and his friend retire to bed.
Prior is getting good at this threshold-of-revelation stuff.
Luke and Leia have been keeping secrets, but not from each other.