summary:
He recalls in one awful moment his young Huan-zhizi’s face then, contorted with pain as he fought through the night, slowly expelling the dread shadow whose claws had sunk deep and, even now, snagged in the great net of his fears. It occurs to him that a-Huan’s healing has never truly ended, that what he had learnt from the multiple mortal dangers of his youth had been caution, and a deep fear of sudden and terrible loss.
No wonder the blows of his adult years had brought him so low.
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A little after their return from Yunping’s Guanyin Temple, it is Lan Qiren who now needs to heal, and his nephew who must help him.
➜ post-canon mdzs fic about Lan Xichen and Lan Qiren
➜ on their relationship with each other, the ways they've tried to support each other and the ways they feel like they've failed or are failing
➜ ahhhh the vibes are so lovely, a tender fragile hope and care with a well of complexity beneath it!
➜ 2k words long
