In a Tight Spot

[hhimring]

Title: In a Tight Spot
Author: Himring
Word Count/Drabble Type: 100 words in MS Word
Character(s)/Ship(s): Jiang Cheng, Lan Sizhui
Rating/Warnings: PG (canon-typical background)
Summary: Their attitudes are very different but, after all, they fight on the same side. In the style of an in-universe story-telling. (Maybe set post-canon, although the plot is in any case meant to be symbolical, really.)


Jiang Cheng said:

Ambush from ten sides—and even among blossoming lotus, I saw nothing but sorrow. Those I leaned on the most left me, each going toward their own end. None even asked me to follow. And still you question why I walk, shoulders squared, whip in hand?

Lan Sizhui answered:

Ambush from ten sides—but even among vengeful ghosts I found a laughing embrace, an outstretched hand! Help came when it was no longer expected, twice. So how can I not keep on hoping now, even in a storm of arrows?

Speaking thus, they battled on, now back-to-back.