The Light Exchanged in This Encounter: Glimpses of the Sun Through the Clouds

[dragonofeternal]

Title: Glimpses of the Sun Through the Clouds
Author: dragonofeternal
Word Count/Drabble Type: 100
Characters: Lan Sizhui, Wen Ning
Rating/Warnings: G

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“I don’t really remember Qishan well.”

Wen Ning doesn’t remember it well either, not really. “Our ancestral home was modest. I was shocked when I’d learned they’d bothered burning it to the ground.”

“I always thought it was cruel to do to them what they’d done to us.”

The Wens, a them, the Lans, an us. “It was war.”

“Could you show me some of the Wen forms?”

Not without practicing, not without embarrassing himself. He shakes his head.

“Then…” A-Yuan’s face scrunches in thought, and it’s Wen Ning’s late uncle he sees. “What about how to heal like a Wen?”

Comments

[hhimring]

Their different points of view become very clear!
I especially like this bit:
"A-Yuan’s face scrunches in thought, and it’s Wen Ning’s late uncle he sees."

[dragonofeternal]

Thank you~ Sometimes it's the little things that peek through to remind that, yes, this is family, even if you've spent lifetimes apart.

[littledust]

I love Sizhui carrying on the Dafan Wen healer legacy so much. ♥

[dragonofeternal]

HE'S A GOOD BEAN, and I'm sure he's honored to carry on his ancestors' knowledge

[ranalore]

I feel for Wen Ning so much, and I love how you've captured that Sizhui is both family he thought he'd lost completely, and a stranger raised in a clan with whom his own has a terrible history. But they're both doing their best to reach across that gap, and I like that it might be the things specific to the Dafan Wen that will help them connect.

[dragonofeternal]

That complication of stranger-kin is so compelling and one of the things that left me shaking the book upside-down waiting for more tidbits to drop out. Like nooo where's the rest I need to see how this builds! Makes for good fic building blocks.

[amedia]

The Wens, a them, the Lans, an us

Wen Ning's POV here is so poignant! He looks at Lan Sizhui and sees Wen Yuan, but he still recognizes the changes he's gone through.

And then, the final paragraph shows us the Wen family connection is still there, in A-Yuan's appearance and in his desire to learn. ♥ ♥ ♥

[dragonofeternal]

That line was one of those magic ones that just sort of comes to you as a natural result of the other lines around it, so even I feel like I'm getting knifed in the chest by it. I'm sure LSZ can find a way to be both a Wen and Lan, a person who honors his ancestors and family and is entirely his own.