[--well that's. A substantially more evasive answer than Jin Guangyao had been expecting to receive from his er-ge. It's the sort of answer that reveals as much as it conceals, the sort of answer that Jin Guangyao himself might have given if he desperately wished to be honest, yet could not tip his hand. Despite himself, his eyebrows raise a little. Beneath the acute anguish in his heart, he's impressed.
But that anguish overwhelms everything else. He takes in the depth of pain on Lan Xichen's face and feels an echo of it in his gut, and immediately steps forward to grip his dearest friend's forearms.]
Well, that--[he catches his breath at that awful, awful thought, swallowing,]--is not necessary anymore, Er-ge, is it? [He holds his gaze, as if to will his friend back into the present moment. Pleading,] We are together now. I am here, now.
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But that anguish overwhelms everything else. He takes in the depth of pain on Lan Xichen's face and feels an echo of it in his gut, and immediately steps forward to grip his dearest friend's forearms.]
Well, that--[he catches his breath at that awful, awful thought, swallowing,]--is not necessary anymore, Er-ge, is it? [He holds his gaze, as if to will his friend back into the present moment. Pleading,] We are together now. I am here, now.