#he like *creates* reality around wu xie and xiaoge he gives them solid ground to stand on- their lives are already SO weird right?

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Aaaaaa like, the very first line!!! it's so beautiful and perfect ...

With the gossamer shock of a bubble popping, Wu Xie burst from dawn-touched stillness into chaotic light and noise.

is it wrong to think someone is maybe getting a little into their pangzi-week feels?

Something in him settled with the touch, present and past realigning themselves with the smell of leather and the warmth of solid muscle. It was impossible to be lost in then around Pangzi, who was such an overwhelming force of now. 

this is such a relatable thing, am i comforting them or comforting myself that i'm at least offering *something*?

Wu Xie kept one hand on his shoulder, a useless comfort that probably did more for Wu Xie than for Huli. 

aaaand there goes the knife in right under the ribcage ...

Zhang Qiling finally met his eyes. The grief that lingered there was a well-worn thing by now, the edges rounded and softened by being passed between the three of them. "I don't have enough memories to get lost in."

!!!! iron triangle feels!!!!

We're going to fix it," he told him firmly, pushing the force of his certainty at him, because if Zhang Qiling was retribution, Pangzi was reckoning, and Wu Xie, of all roles, found himself forced to be their restraint"

god, so much of this i love to pieces but most especially the kind of hushed, intimate urgency of the little ... tableaus, i wanna say, where eveuthing is carrying on but the characters are carving out these little spaces in the narrative to communicate the really important things, it's such a physical feeling of a break in story i just... it's SO great

Intersection - Fox of Nine Tales

Chapter 17 is up at AO3!