[He doesn't even think about his reaction, really, it just bursts out of him like the most natural response to this particular crisis: Jin Guangyao seizes hold of Huaisang by his shoulder and pinwheeling arm and pulls him back against his chest before the ground gives way again. Because that is exactly what happens next as the steps that had been behind them crack, groan, and then collapse into nothingness. They're stranded on the skeletal remains of the staircase with barely enough room to occupy the same step.
Wide-eyed, terrified, and miraculously managing to keep his shit together despite both of those things, Jin Guangyao tries to gauge the distance between where they're wobbling together on the last remaining step, and the steps that have risen away from them opposite the newly formed gorge.]
I think, [hesitant, unsure, but they're out of options, aren't they,] I can fly us across on Hensheng.
[His golden core is like a cozy bonfire in winter when compared to the blazing sun that burned within Nie Mingjue, but surely even he and his weaker cultivation cross that distance with a passenger in tow. Besides, he doesn't see many other options. like does Huaisang even have a sabre anymore]
lol roll a reflex and willpower save
[He doesn't even think about his reaction, really, it just bursts out of him like the most natural response to this particular crisis: Jin Guangyao seizes hold of Huaisang by his shoulder and pinwheeling arm and pulls him back against his chest before the ground gives way again. Because that is exactly what happens next as the steps that had been behind them crack, groan, and then collapse into nothingness. They're stranded on the skeletal remains of the staircase with barely enough room to occupy the same step.
Wide-eyed, terrified, and miraculously managing to keep his shit together despite both of those things, Jin Guangyao tries to gauge the distance between where they're wobbling together on the last remaining step, and the steps that have risen away from them opposite the newly formed gorge.]
I think, [hesitant, unsure, but they're out of options, aren't they,] I can fly us across on Hensheng.
[His golden core is like a cozy bonfire in winter when compared to the blazing sun that burned within Nie Mingjue, but surely even he and his weaker cultivation cross that distance with a passenger in tow. Besides, he doesn't see many other options.
like does Huaisang even have a sabre anymore]