this is Trench just trying to make them touch each other a lot, isn't it
"...Whatever is doing this is using our fears to unsettle us."
"It's working," he blurts out almost spitefully, like a cornered animal lashing out in a desperate bid to protect itself. At least his frightened fury isn't directed at Lan Xichen in this moment; he is still tightly clutching to his friend's sleeve, and whatever embarrassment or awkwardness he might feel about their proximity after their earlier conversation has been shelved until the danger has passed.
(None of that changes his certainty about one thing, however: if Nie Mingjue were to appear in Trench, Jin Guangyao would once again have to kill him before his sworn brother could kill him first. Perhaps if he's sent back into the sea, his resentful energy could be dispelled once and for all, and perhaps he would re-enter the wheel of reincarnation in their world and never come back--)
The thought reaches his ears like a disjointed whisper, and Jin Guangyao looks sharply to the side to try and identify the source of it, but all he sees is Lan Xichen, still surveying the road for threats. "Did you hear--"
It is like someone has cut the line of tension running through Jin Guangyao's shoulders as the clarifying thought settles into place in his mind, and distantly, he becomes aware of one last shout from their da-ge's spectre, before it fades away into nothingness. He stares at the street below them, blinking his eyes as though trying to dispel some persistent afterimage from his vision. Then he looks to Lan Xichen again and obeys a compulsion that he only partly understands: "Er-ge," he starts, tries to catch his gaze, and repeats the words that he had heard in his own mind, "the Tower is weakening and soon shall fall."
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this is Trench just trying to make them touch each other a lot, isn't it"...Whatever is doing this is using our fears to unsettle us."
"It's working," he blurts out almost spitefully, like a cornered animal lashing out in a desperate bid to protect itself. At least his frightened fury isn't directed at Lan Xichen in this moment; he is still tightly clutching to his friend's sleeve, and whatever embarrassment or awkwardness he might feel about their proximity after their earlier conversation has been shelved until the danger has passed.
(None of that changes his certainty about one thing, however: if Nie Mingjue were to appear in Trench, Jin Guangyao would once again have to kill him before his sworn brother could kill him first. Perhaps if he's sent back into the sea, his resentful energy could be dispelled once and for all, and perhaps he would re-enter the wheel of reincarnation in their world and never come back--)
The thought reaches his ears like a disjointed whisper, and Jin Guangyao looks sharply to the side to try and identify the source of it, but all he sees is Lan Xichen, still surveying the road for threats. "Did you hear--"
...oh.
It is like someone has cut the line of tension running through Jin Guangyao's shoulders as the clarifying thought settles into place in his mind, and distantly, he becomes aware of one last shout from their da-ge's spectre, before it fades away into nothingness. He stares at the street below them, blinking his eyes as though trying to dispel some persistent afterimage from his vision. Then he looks to Lan Xichen again and obeys a compulsion that he only partly understands: "Er-ge," he starts, tries to catch his gaze, and repeats the words that he had heard in his own mind, "the Tower is weakening and soon shall fall."