❰ it has been a long week, and jiang yanli has received a taste of her own medicine. this is what her brothers felt -- even if you know someone is returning from the dead, it hurts just the same to know they aren't there, and that they may have suffered. at least she knew beforehand, in this case, a cryptic message she had no idea how to respond to except to fall to pieces. it's not as if she's made great strides to personally keep her family safe, but it's as if all the hope she could feel in her body for it was wasted space.
it wasn't until after she returned she knew just how many days she'd been gone. waking up in the forest, it felt like both an eternity but also a blink, and for all she knew at the time? it could have been. she has no idea how things consistently work in this strange land, but all she's had it in her to do is lay in her room and watch as the numbers on the face of her phone change. it's so early in the morning that the sun hasn't yet come out, but it's then that it hits her that maybe her brother is breathing again, somewhere. ❱
( 10/03 ) un: jiangyanli
it wasn't until after she returned she knew just how many days she'd been gone. waking up in the forest, it felt like both an eternity but also a blink, and for all she knew at the time? it could have been. she has no idea how things consistently work in this strange land, but all she's had it in her to do is lay in her room and watch as the numbers on the face of her phone change. it's so early in the morning that the sun hasn't yet come out, but it's then that it hits her that maybe her brother is breathing again, somewhere. ❱
a-xian, please tell me you are alive.