bang! crash! the lightning flashed!! -- that's another story, nevermind, anyway!

[qingxinling]

Jiang Wanyin sweeps along the shores of the lake, glowering. This is not his beloved Lotus Pier. These waters are cold, foreign, uninviting. Clearly there's been some trap: he's been distracted by duty in this hunt, and when he followed the slight tug in his chest, he ended up getting pulled into unfamiliar territory.

No matter. He draws himself to full height, letting cool arrogance slip down his shoulders and suffuse him. Sandu is naked in one hand; Zidian crackles in the other. He can handle whatever monsters may arrive.

Comments

[thepurpledanger]

The lack of detail about his cool whip moves immediately has Gu Xiang on her guard. She's enough of a blowhard herself that she recognizes when someone's being a blowhard. "Fine," she says. "Whatever, you're a big hero! But there are people here who are under my protection, and if you lay so much as a finger on any of them, I'm going to snake that whip through your mouth all the way to your asshole--and then I'm going to saw it back and forth like I'm slicing clay!"

[qingxinling]

This is descriptive enough that it startles Jiang Wanyin out of his extended glower about Lan Wangji. "That's disgusting," he says, very nearly sounding approving about it.

[thepurpledanger]

Gu Xiang smirks a little, pleased with herself. "See you around, uncle! And maybe think about wearing a color someone doesn't already have dibs on!" And with that, she leaps off toward the trees. (It's closer than the mansion, and she wants a big dramatic exit.)