10/7/2026, 8:29 AM
haoran's name too she recognized. more nobility, was he not? but while it failed to stir any particular reaction in her, the other girl's frustration was plain.
yue was there too, after all, overseeing the process. but these were not shenlei's children, she surmised? they were haoran's. she wished for her father, then? "fathers are busy," she informed the other. mothers were too, but yué managed to find time for them. perhaps she was new to this.
she was not blind to her own half-sisters- but this did not bother her in the way it clearly bothered the stranger. had they sat before the den like this when she and her siblings were being born? shuyan had barely seen them as it was. they had what were called responsibilities. she would, someday soon.
she didn't know enough about him to care whether or not they deserved him, but it seemed irrelevant. parents were parents. things happened, and the sleeping dragon. had found no way to make any great impact on what they were. if everyone understood this like she did, there would be much less fuss.
"téng shuyan." a slow blink. "you are tsang?"
yue was there too, after all, overseeing the process. but these were not shenlei's children, she surmised? they were haoran's. she wished for her father, then? "fathers are busy," she informed the other. mothers were too, but yué managed to find time for them. perhaps she was new to this.
she was not blind to her own half-sisters- but this did not bother her in the way it clearly bothered the stranger. had they sat before the den like this when she and her siblings were being born? shuyan had barely seen them as it was. they had what were called responsibilities. she would, someday soon.
she didn't know enough about him to care whether or not they deserved him, but it seemed irrelevant. parents were parents. things happened, and the sleeping dragon. had found no way to make any great impact on what they were. if everyone understood this like she did, there would be much less fuss.
"téng shuyan." a slow blink. "you are tsang?"
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