un: heart-fluttering hummingbird | audio (forward-dated: 24 May)

[downswing]

( A silence to his mouth, begrudging. The words, when he does speak them, gravel between teeth: )

...apologies. The blood in the northern halls will want more hands for the washing.

We made insufficient attempt.


( ooc: posted today for ooc ease, but assume this comes up after Sizhui/Eleven/Mingyu speak with the miners, around 24 May. Alina and Lan Wangji have given the miners their mercy kill, before they could fully transition, and removed the bodies from where they were kept... but clean-up. )

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[downswing]

( He is a Lan. He will survive.

He is a Lan. He will bear.

He is a Lan. He will prevail.

He asked. He did ask. Contorted himself to purpose. Lent the opening. Gave opportunity. Brought this, some might say, upon himself.

And if he must... agree to have an instrument of humiliation brought into his quarters, only to slip out into the night and seek a proper river, well. Well, then. )

The... trough.