( A husband that moves, that tries to twist, that ends up impossibly with the beleagured rabbit in arms and nestling in between Lan Zhan's legs, the force of weight of one body trapping robes between braced knees. Strong legs, he remembers, even as the rabbit kicks and he thinks also, strong legs, making himself a nested cradle under his husband's looming form. Looks up, rabbit held to his chest, its nose twitching as Wei Wuxian blinks up into Lan Zhan's face.
As he smiles, small, and asks: )
Do you really want to hear?
( With something dangerously like hope in his eyes. A mother dies; parents precede their children, and that is the way of the world. She too shall pass, in truth, but let it be the moment of them escaping, of her children guided onward, of a sacrifice she can choose, and not the failings of a body that had never been a choice at all.
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( A husband that moves, that tries to twist, that ends up impossibly with the beleagured rabbit in arms and nestling in between Lan Zhan's legs, the force of weight of one body trapping robes between braced knees. Strong legs, he remembers, even as the rabbit kicks and he thinks also, strong legs, making himself a nested cradle under his husband's looming form. Looks up, rabbit held to his chest, its nose twitching as Wei Wuxian blinks up into Lan Zhan's face.
As he smiles, small, and asks: )
Do you really want to hear?
( With something dangerously like hope in his eyes. A mother dies; parents precede their children, and that is the way of the world. She too shall pass, in truth, but let it be the moment of them escaping, of her children guided onward, of a sacrifice she can choose, and not the failings of a body that had never been a choice at all.
Hope, tenacious, gleaming, maddening. )
You really want to know?