The love of Sander's life still manages to surprise him.
Over the years and across the provinces, they have explored together every li of what there is to offer in this between them.
The fever breaks that morning, spurring Tang Fan from the bridge between death and dreaming.
Sui Zhou must rise eventually, of course.
Sui Zhou and Tang Fan attend all manner of gatherings with great regularity, but it is rare for them to partake in much mingling as themselves.
No inch of his bared skin is a revelation to Tang Fan, but stripping before him still feels like an unveiling, marital. A deification of the profane.
The deluge of rain that sweeps the capital is sudden.
(Written for Comorbidities' prompt on Tumblr and Stars' "Take Me To The Riot": saturday nights in neon lights, sunday in the cell.)
Pills?, Numbers signs twice for emphasis. P-I-L-L-S. His eyes are shut with pain, and Wrench's jaw tightens.