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Galahad son of Lancelot ([personal profile] onthewillowsthere) wrote2024-07-22 01:40 pm
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[closed post -- training]

The day after Evil Twin Magnus leaves, Galahad shows up for his training with Lan Wangji exactly as he always does (although later in the day, because Lan Wangji asked him to wait until afternoon to meet) -- if Lan Wangji were going solely on his appearance, he'd see absolutely nothing out of order. He throws himself into the sword forms with his usual focus. But he's gripping the hilt of his sword too tightly, and his movements are tense; he's never graceful, but today he's almost clumsy, and each failure or misstep only seems to pull him tighter, like an overwound watch.
lightbearinglord: (qin & bunny)

[personal profile] lightbearinglord 2024-07-28 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Good. He would do that now, if asked, although perhaps less helpfully. Putting his hands in the soil would do nothing but make his hands dirty. Lan Wangji refills his own tea, then. "I took the other Galahad to see the rabbits."
lightbearinglord: (soft hgj)

[personal profile] lightbearinglord 2024-07-28 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
The fresh tea steams a little again, the tea leaves suspended before they start to sink. "Yes. I think that he was not so powerfully sad while he held Danding."
lightbearinglord: (tiny smile in profile)

[personal profile] lightbearinglord 2024-07-28 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
That's another little thing to hold onto, and he will. "Perhaps he was reminded of Percival. He thought that I might have been sent by his god."
lightbearinglord: (moonlight)

[personal profile] lightbearinglord 2024-07-29 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
Lan Wangji notices that tiny smile, of course, and commits the look of it to memory. He sips his tea, then sets it back down again. "You asked to train with me. You can ask to stop." He means it straightforwardly, with no particular implication. He enjoys teaching Galahad; he likes watching him learn and watching his strength grow. But Galahad is not a Lan disciple, and he has no obligation to keep down this path. If he can do only so much, as is true of every person, and he wants to fill his time with other things instead, he can.
lightbearinglord: (against the world)

[personal profile] lightbearinglord 2024-07-29 02:20 pm (UTC)(link)
"You're overwhelmed," Lan Wangji says. It's without judgment, either. "If you need to set this down, you can."
lightbearinglord: (petal)

[personal profile] lightbearinglord 2024-07-29 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Lan Wangji finds himself glad, even relieved. He feels the weight of this responsibility every day; Galahad is hardly a traditional cultivation disciple, and he is Magnus' brother and best friend, Claudius' beloved and his future husband. He wants to guide him well. It is a good weight, though, a pleasant one that reminds him of his own experience and endurance. "Then we will continue."
lightbearinglord: (soft hgj)

[personal profile] lightbearinglord 2024-07-29 04:04 pm (UTC)(link)
That earns Galahad an ephemeral smile from Lan Wangji in turn, there and then gone again. Typically, if he is not alone in this room, it is filled with the sounds of Wei Ying: talking, laughing, teasing, tapping his fingers as he thinks or flipping furiously through the pages of whatever he is reading. Sharing the quiet with Galahad has its own kind of appeal.
lightbearinglord: (soft hgj)

[personal profile] lightbearinglord 2024-07-30 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
"I did." His voice is laced with subtle fondness. "He seemed wholly different at first, but he was unmistakable the moment he spoke."
lightbearinglord: (at peace)

[personal profile] lightbearinglord 2024-07-30 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
"Mn. His stories were different, but he was still my friend."
lightbearinglord: (curtain)

[personal profile] lightbearinglord 2024-07-30 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
"Some of the history of his country, Ishgard. The story of a man he had loved and lost, and about a young man in his care." Upon finishing his own cup, he refills each of theirs one more time; there's just enough left in the teapot for that.
lightbearinglord: (against the world)

[personal profile] lightbearinglord 2024-07-30 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"Not as well as Claudius told it," he warns Galahad.
lightbearinglord: (profile)

[personal profile] lightbearinglord 2024-08-01 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
As long as Galahad knows -- but he already would have, given their similarity. Lan Wangji nods, resettles himself where he sits, and takes his cup of tea in his hands anew. "Ishgard is an isolated country. It spent a thousand years at war, battling dragons. Claudius had left it behind."
lightbearinglord: (moonlight)

[personal profile] lightbearinglord 2024-08-03 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Lan Wangji catches the smile, and without mirroring it, mirrors the sentiment. He takes a slow drink of his tea and assembles his memory of his walk with that other Claudius. "He had found steadfast companions and was known as the Warrior of Light." That title still comes near to snagging his face into a smile after all. "In a place called Ul'dah, he was accused of murder by poison." He meets Galahad's gaze there, well aware of the irony of that detail of the story.

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