( He acts as driftwood, under Lan Zhan's movements, jostled and boneless in his wake, content that he needn't worry about drowning anytime soon. Too good a swimmer, and too disinclined to fall off whatever craft they've been navigating with the last few months.
Children sleeping, nothing pressing in such a way to demand immediate action. The thoughts of progress, of healing, for a land and people long past or more recently departed, has a different sort of soothing to a mind as used to their screams as the silences between.
He listens with an initial hum, a I'm listening that fades into an open eyed stare down at the heads of their children, at his own hand, at the floor beyond. Like disconnected things that shift and resettle, glaciers gasping and groaning in month long exhalations as each year by millimeters they rearrange themselves.
Like words that stir a shift in glance, and a laugh that's quiet, flattered, seen in a way that to him, makes sense. )
Then I hope you don't plan on a peaceful retirement, he who appears in the heart of chaos.
( Some men are simply born chaos manifested, regardless of outer forming. )
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Children sleeping, nothing pressing in such a way to demand immediate action. The thoughts of progress, of healing, for a land and people long past or more recently departed, has a different sort of soothing to a mind as used to their screams as the silences between.
He listens with an initial hum, a I'm listening that fades into an open eyed stare down at the heads of their children, at his own hand, at the floor beyond. Like disconnected things that shift and resettle, glaciers gasping and groaning in month long exhalations as each year by millimeters they rearrange themselves.
Like words that stir a shift in glance, and a laugh that's quiet, flattered, seen in a way that to him, makes sense. )
Then I hope you don't plan on a peaceful retirement, he who appears in the heart of chaos.
( Some men are simply born chaos manifested, regardless of outer forming. )