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

[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.