[ He doesn’t pull from the touch, but he doesn’t lean into it, either. He just stares down into the cup, frowning into its depths. ]
He said I’d just gotten my first horse. I can’t have been more than five or six.
[ Even then, he’d known something was wrong with him. Even then, people spoke to him with pity, or to each other in whispers. The shadow of Wei Wuxian had never fallen far from his childhood.
He was used to Sizhui talking for Hanguang-Jun. He expected it, even. ]
... How could he upset me? [ A little crisply. As if it wasn’t obvious how upset he was. ] I wanted answers. He can’t give them, because he wasn’t there.
I know there’s his double, but... you all - it’s like you all fit from somewhere else. Things I don’t know yet or maybe things that didn’t happen to me because we come from mirrors of each other. I don’t know. Neither of them are the man I saw that night. And that’s the only man who could answer me, who wasn’t Wei Wuxian himself.
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He said I’d just gotten my first horse. I can’t have been more than five or six.
[ Even then, he’d known something was wrong with him. Even then, people spoke to him with pity, or to each other in whispers. The shadow of Wei Wuxian had never fallen far from his childhood.
He was used to Sizhui talking for Hanguang-Jun. He expected it, even. ]
... How could he upset me? [ A little crisply. As if it wasn’t obvious how upset he was. ] I wanted answers. He can’t give them, because he wasn’t there.
I know there’s his double, but... you all - it’s like you all fit from somewhere else. Things I don’t know yet or maybe things that didn’t happen to me because we come from mirrors of each other. I don’t know. Neither of them are the man I saw that night. And that’s the only man who could answer me, who wasn’t Wei Wuxian himself.