[ He takes it as the dismissal that it is, and gives another short stiff bow before turning without a word, clenching one fist behind him and the other around his sword.
Fairy lingers for a moment, black eyes staring up at white-cast stone, tilting her head as she considers. She wags her tail - once, twice - and then turns to follow her lost master, bereft of a port he can safely call home.
Things have to be different here. It is a belief struck so firmly in him that it will not waver. If all the respected seniors and masters of his past have failed time and time again to avert the tragedy, it doesn't matter. He will not fail. He will stop Wei Ying from recommitting his crimes and he will stop Wen Ning from becoming the knife and he will stop his parents from ever leaving him again.
Hubris and folly and youth wrapped in one, but he is as determined as he is heart broken.
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Fairy lingers for a moment, black eyes staring up at white-cast stone, tilting her head as she considers. She wags her tail - once, twice - and then turns to follow her lost master, bereft of a port he can safely call home.
Things have to be different here. It is a belief struck so firmly in him that it will not waver. If all the respected seniors and masters of his past have failed time and time again to avert the tragedy, it doesn't matter. He will not fail. He will stop Wei Ying from recommitting his crimes and he will stop Wen Ning from becoming the knife and he will stop his parents from ever leaving him again.
Hubris and folly and youth wrapped in one, but he is as determined as he is heart broken.
And then he is gone. ]