[ Her eyes fell to his hand as she watched the gentle glow from the energy passing from his fingers to her arm, mystified but touched.
Looking on in silent fascination she relaxed her arm, meeting his eye with a smile that was both warm and weary. ]
Will any of this leave any of us?
[ There's a haunted sort of sadness in her eyes when she spoke, one shoulder lifting in a weary shrug.
None of this was going to leave her. Not the thing at the bottom of the lake, or the farm burning down, or the blood rain, or any of it. Whatever any of them were walking back into when the Beacon was activated, they were by and large all walking into it with a handful more terrible memories than they started with. ]
[ In all things, his hand hovered above the guqin strings, ever short of tainting touch. He hesitates. ] It will awe you, what the mind forgets for preservation.
[ Wars, losses, disaster in the realm of the personal, the absolute. Wei Ying, dangling off cliff-side, hands broken, red at his mouth and the pour trickle-soft.
This is truth, unholy: a body survives, where thoughts disperse and wander. The vessel of Lily Evans need not concede the battle first. Need not even know it headed to war. ]
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Looking on in silent fascination she relaxed her arm, meeting his eye with a smile that was both warm and weary. ]
Will any of this leave any of us?
[ There's a haunted sort of sadness in her eyes when she spoke, one shoulder lifting in a weary shrug.
None of this was going to leave her. Not the thing at the bottom of the lake, or the farm burning down, or the blood rain, or any of it. Whatever any of them were walking back into when the Beacon was activated, they were by and large all walking into it with a handful more terrible memories than they started with. ]
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[ Wars, losses, disaster in the realm of the personal, the absolute. Wei Ying, dangling off cliff-side, hands broken, red at his mouth and the pour trickle-soft.
This is truth, unholy: a body survives, where thoughts disperse and wander. The vessel of Lily Evans need not concede the battle first. Need not even know it headed to war. ]