[ jiang cheng stares at his empty hands as though trying to parse where the bottle went, gaze slowly tracking from his hands to jin ling's own, then up to his nephew's face. he picks up another half-empty bottle instead, but doesn't drink from it yet. ]
Wei Wuxian left, so I— Who needs... this, right? You should have a room. And other people... should have rooms. I'll... I'll get a new place, where people can come and go, and if there's enough... people, maybe I won't... Maybe they won't all—
[ choking on his breath, jiang cheng hunches over himself with another hoarse sob, unable to quite form the words. —maybe they won't all leave me alone. An empty apartment is no different from the blood-soaked walkways of Lotus Pier.
jiang cheng always, always ends back up here again.
maybe he should make jin ling leave too.
the people around him are always in danger. they leave him one way or the other.
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[ jiang cheng stares at his empty hands as though trying to parse where the bottle went, gaze slowly tracking from his hands to jin ling's own, then up to his nephew's face. he picks up another half-empty bottle instead, but doesn't drink from it yet. ]
Wei Wuxian left, so I— Who needs... this, right? You should have a room. And other people... should have rooms. I'll... I'll get a new place, where people can come and go, and if there's enough... people, maybe I won't... Maybe they won't all—
[ choking on his breath, jiang cheng hunches over himself with another hoarse sob, unable to quite form the words. —maybe they won't all leave me alone. An empty apartment is no different from the blood-soaked walkways of Lotus Pier.
jiang cheng always, always ends back up here again.
maybe he should make jin ling leave too.
the people around him are always in danger. they leave him one way or the other.
one way or the other. ]