[ Wen Qing doesn't know yet of the fate that is awaiting her or that her brother alone will survive, she assumes that he must be from her own time at the Burial Mounds.

And yet still, she hugs him tightly, sensing that this feels more meaningful to him than their short separation explains and simply blaming it on them being in an unfamiliar place, with scary changes happening to their bodies. ]

I know you will. As you have always been. You and Wei Wuxian, you protect us every day, A-Ning. That makes you a hero to all of us.