I can't pretend I didn't picture you training in your rain-suit.
( but the rest is quite a bit heavier. his own fault, really, but xingchen can't help but sit for a moment with the notion of what that reality might have looked like.
and then with the dull, aching recognition that his notion was skewed - that it pictured a version in which xue yang arrived from behind the scenes only at the end, not a version in which xue yang was there to observe him (isolate him, how else had zichen ended up dead?) at any given time. )
Perhaps it's better that you didn't. Your first impression of me was far better than that would have been.
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( but the rest is quite a bit heavier. his own fault, really, but xingchen can't help but sit for a moment with the notion of what that reality might have looked like.
and then with the dull, aching recognition that his notion was skewed - that it pictured a version in which xue yang arrived from behind the scenes only at the end, not a version in which xue yang was there to observe him (isolate him, how else had zichen ended up dead?) at any given time. )
Perhaps it's better that you didn't. Your first impression of me was far better than that would have been.