Longing makes the world bright and the yearner blind, he knows, but even without his want soaking through and staining it, he thinks— he would be sure.
Italian fashions have come to Eastcheap.
Near misses in the Greek tutorial.
Crash needs Ginger. Ginger wants Crash.
When Primo returns from Rome the boy is dead. It doesn't last.
“We raised a child together,” Jiang Wanyin says, voice thick with pain. “You two were sworn brothers.” He swallows hard and oh. Oh, no. Lan Xichen is not ready for this conversation. He is never going to be ready for this conversation. “And because of what he did, there is nowhere outside this room that either of us can mourn him.”
Lan Xichen has been in seclusion for half a year, healing, he thinks, from the way his world was upended that night in a temple in Yunping…
“We raised a child together,” Jiang Wanyin says, voice thick with pain. “You two were sworn brothers.” He swallows hard and oh. Oh, no. Lan Xichen is not ready for this conversation. He is never going to be ready for this conversation. “And because of what he did, there is nowhere outside this room that either of us can mourn him.”
Lan Xichen has been in seclusion for half a year, healing, he thinks, from the way his world was upended that night in a temple in Yunping City. Then, Jiang Wanyin comes to visit—breaking the fragile peace he has been building, but offering, perhaps, a better healing.
Ask meme drabble written for this challenge. Prompt: Kate Bush, a deal with God.
There must be easier ways to pass the time than this, but Crozier isn't interested.
"But yes. The subject to hand, as it were."
Victor's maybe a little obsessed.
That night, Nie Mingjue dreams of Qinghe, but it is a Qinghe that is far from home.