[a picture: wei wuxian, coming up short and stopping in the middle of foot traffic, his face wiped clean of any humor.]
No, that can't be right.
[the words are out of his mouth before he can stop himself. shijie, married, and shijie, heavy with child — but also shijie, dead.
wei wuxian stumbles on nothing. the lans would never lie. the lans would not lie, especially not on this matter, and yet—]
Who— [force the words out, wei wuxian, spit them out--] If you must answer nothing else, please tell me - were they avenged? Where were we? Did we—
[in wei wuxian's mind there's no question who "we" are. he'd sworn to stand by his shidi, sworn to give his life to the jiangs. together, they should've been unstoppable. and yet— and yet.
no subject
No, that can't be right.
[the words are out of his mouth before he can stop himself. shijie, married, and shijie, heavy with child — but also shijie, dead.
wei wuxian stumbles on nothing. the lans would never lie. the lans would not lie, especially not on this matter, and yet—]
Who— [force the words out, wei wuxian, spit them out--] If you must answer nothing else, please tell me - were they avenged? Where were we? Did we—
[in wei wuxian's mind there's no question who "we" are. he'd sworn to stand by his shidi, sworn to give his life to the jiangs. together, they should've been unstoppable. and yet— and yet.
how could it have come to pass at all?]
What happened?