[It's a dull fear at the back of Shi Qingxuan's head. Whatever has become of his real home back in the heavenly realm? Is this really a dream, after all?
His morbid curiosity would never override his fear of certainty, and he doesn't dare ask outloud.
Stretching his silence by moving this way and that, limbs taut over his head as if to shake the last of sleep off, he buys precious time to contemplate the words he's never taken care to ponder before rattling out before.]
Why, it's always lovely here, Nie-xiong! Even better now you're back!
]The evenings of drinking alone. The closed door separating him from Ming Yi. The lonely, late breakfasts and the bustle all around him that never seems to include him. Qingxuan's smile dims despite himself.]
It's... Gotten rather small, for such an unknown island. And dull. That doesn't sound too happy, does it?
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His morbid curiosity would never override his fear of certainty, and he doesn't dare ask outloud.
Stretching his silence by moving this way and that, limbs taut over his head as if to shake the last of sleep off, he buys precious time to contemplate the words he's never taken care to ponder before rattling out before.]
Why, it's always lovely here, Nie-xiong! Even better now you're back!
]The evenings of drinking alone. The closed door separating him from Ming Yi. The lonely, late breakfasts and the bustle all around him that never seems to include him. Qingxuan's smile dims despite himself.]
It's... Gotten rather small, for such an unknown island. And dull. That doesn't sound too happy, does it?