Summary:
“How could you let him?” she asked abruptly.
It came out—menacing. Her own voice hadn’t been capable of conveying anger like that. If she’d tried very hard to rage, it would have been shrill and unimpressive, and if she’d spoken the way she’d tried to just now, it might have chilled the right room but it would still have sounded gentle.
A-Cheng’s voice had no softness in it, and both boys went very still.
➤ mdzs/cql canon divergence au, where instead of mxy sacrificing himself to resurrect wwx, jc sacrifices himself to resurrect jyl
➤ jyl and wn and mxy eat soup together about it
➤ and jyl grapples with how she feels about everything that happened. and what she's going to do next
➤ and like. DANG I love it!!!
➤ 5k words in length