#utff day 8

[fytheuntamed]

🍁  Untamed Fall Fest 2020 🍁  // Day (8/31) // Lan Xichen

“I am not a fool. I have just loved with an honest heart.”

-Mukta Singh-Zocchi (The Thugs & A Courtesan, 2014)

[wormsound]

Zewu-Jun, born October 8th

@fytheuntamed‘s Untamed Fall Fest

Day 8 - Lan Xichen

[ahlaishepherd]

Fall Fest Drabbles

Day 8: Lan Xichen

They didn’t expect him to live. The winter sickness sweeps through Cloud Recesses in Lan Huan’s second year and leaves their little heir frail and sickly. In the following months he spends more nights in an infirmary bed than his own and the decision is made; they need a spare. From his first breath A-Zhan must be the perfect Lan, never allowed to set a foot wrong. Lan Huan, by contrast, is shamelessly indulged for where is the harm in coddling a child who will not see adulthood. By the time it’s clear he will, the damage is done.

[fanonplussed]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Mingjue,

I hope you are well. How long has it been since we last met in person? I wanted

It is said that a man’s thoughts invariably take the shape of his surrounds; perhaps it is inevitable, then, that my thoughts should stray from my obligations, here. That the mind is frayed by worldly concerns. By thoughts of how we could have made time to meet; last season, last month, last week. Tomorrow. Today.

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Lan Xichen writes a letter while in hiding from the Wens, after the Cloud Recesses burned.