Her grace was more than our world merited. Too few understood how incredible she... was.
( a thickened note, but the swallow, the fondness, the need to move forward so that sixteen years of darkness and months flooded by light and threat of death to learn why she had died, what had set the stage for the tragedies that swept his carefully tended world off its cliffside into the roiling seas below... warmth wins. affection wins. loss is swallowed, not only for his sake, but for any others who listen. )
As they should have been. She was beautiful in her wedding reds. She and Jiang Cheng snuck into Yiling's small towns to show me. I've never seen anyone more radiant than she was in those robes.
( no failure to understand why, even if zixuan was still in the proving of his deserving her. he had, months and months later, given a good accounting of himself.
and he had died, and that was that, the crack felt to the marrow, the nicked artery, the beginning slide to a violent end for many. the invention of another, brief war. )
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( a thickened note, but the swallow, the fondness, the need to move forward so that sixteen years of darkness and months flooded by light and threat of death to learn why she had died, what had set the stage for the tragedies that swept his carefully tended world off its cliffside into the roiling seas below... warmth wins. affection wins. loss is swallowed, not only for his sake, but for any others who listen. )
As they should have been. She was beautiful in her wedding reds. She and Jiang Cheng snuck into Yiling's small towns to show me. I've never seen anyone more radiant than she was in those robes.
( no failure to understand why, even if zixuan was still in the proving of his deserving her. he had, months and months later, given a good accounting of himself.
and he had died, and that was that, the crack felt to the marrow, the nicked artery, the beginning slide to a violent end for many. the invention of another, brief war. )