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middaeg2020-07-08 01:00 pm
chifeng_zun) wrote in middaeg2020-07-08 01:00 pm
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[closed] brother let me be your fortress
Who: Nie Mingjue and Nie Huaisang
When: Beginning of July
Where: The Coven
What: Brothers reunite and bond.
Warnings: None.
[The Looking-Glass House is in a bit of chaos when the new arrivals come through. Nie Mingjue guesses by now that it's the normal procedure of events, though he barely remembers his own arrival, having needed time to come down from the throes of qi deviation in the infirmary. Normally, he wouldn't care to show up with the other Mirrorbound, hopeful to see friends or family among the new batch, but after May... After May, he can't not, with his heart in his throat. Especially when he sees a few familiar faces in the crowd already.
He had accepted Huaisang's leaving, previously. It was for the best, he told himself. They got closure together, they got one last month to spend as brothers before Huaisang went back to his life, his duties, hopefully with a new resolve to live for himself. It doesn't mean he hasn't missed him, his gaze always lighting on the painting on his wall when he returns home, the little animated figures and the mountains of home. A most precious gift that reminds him of the time they had.
But there is always the possibility. He has seen Jiang Yanli, who remembered her last visit. There is a possibility. (Jin Guangyao is still here, and after May, Nie Mingjue cannot trust him around Huaisang, if he does happen to show, no matter how much Lan Xichen insists he keeps an eye on the snake.) And so, he waits near the doorway, taller than most and using his vantage point to scope out the faces. Baxia has been left at home, but he doesn't need her, if it comes down to a fight. He has retractable claws, now.
In the cacophony of scents and noises, he smells Huaisang first, smells the lingering traces of home, and spots him not long after, standing a little taller to motion for him. His voice is sharp, loud enough to be heard over the din of many voices,]
Huaisang! Here!
[Something inside him lurches for a different reason, a feeling that pushes everything else out, leaving only relief, joy. His brother. Nie Mingjue is suddenly glad he came; what would his didi have thought if his big brother hadn't been here to greet him? (He would have been fine, he's a grown man now, but still it's hard for Mingjue to break himself out of old patterns when he experienced nothing of those ten years during which Huaisang had to grow.)]
When: Beginning of July
Where: The Coven
What: Brothers reunite and bond.
Warnings: None.
[The Looking-Glass House is in a bit of chaos when the new arrivals come through. Nie Mingjue guesses by now that it's the normal procedure of events, though he barely remembers his own arrival, having needed time to come down from the throes of qi deviation in the infirmary. Normally, he wouldn't care to show up with the other Mirrorbound, hopeful to see friends or family among the new batch, but after May... After May, he can't not, with his heart in his throat. Especially when he sees a few familiar faces in the crowd already.
He had accepted Huaisang's leaving, previously. It was for the best, he told himself. They got closure together, they got one last month to spend as brothers before Huaisang went back to his life, his duties, hopefully with a new resolve to live for himself. It doesn't mean he hasn't missed him, his gaze always lighting on the painting on his wall when he returns home, the little animated figures and the mountains of home. A most precious gift that reminds him of the time they had.
But there is always the possibility. He has seen Jiang Yanli, who remembered her last visit. There is a possibility. (Jin Guangyao is still here, and after May, Nie Mingjue cannot trust him around Huaisang, if he does happen to show, no matter how much Lan Xichen insists he keeps an eye on the snake.) And so, he waits near the doorway, taller than most and using his vantage point to scope out the faces. Baxia has been left at home, but he doesn't need her, if it comes down to a fight. He has retractable claws, now.
In the cacophony of scents and noises, he smells Huaisang first, smells the lingering traces of home, and spots him not long after, standing a little taller to motion for him. His voice is sharp, loud enough to be heard over the din of many voices,]
Huaisang! Here!
[Something inside him lurches for a different reason, a feeling that pushes everything else out, leaving only relief, joy. His brother. Nie Mingjue is suddenly glad he came; what would his didi have thought if his big brother hadn't been here to greet him? (He would have been fine, he's a grown man now, but still it's hard for Mingjue to break himself out of old patterns when he experienced nothing of those ten years during which Huaisang had to grow.)]