[She listens, but she feels like she can’t quite wrap her head around it too much. Like she gets it, but also can’t quite believe it. A dream, walking through a mirror, ending up in some other city? How could she think it’s real? Granted, it’s perhaps not too far-fetched...
Slowly Sae begins to stand, wincing a little as she puts weight on her ankle. It’s not busted or anything, but it’s sore from how hard she fell. While she might not be able to move fast, she can at least move. She looks down at the blood when he does and starts, like she’s seeing it for the first time, and reaches a trembling hand down to touch at the stain. It’s in a vague butterfly wing pattern and she feels the beginnings of hysterical laughter welling up in her throat.
Sae swallows hard and brings her shaking hands away from it, flecks of the dried blood coming off onto her fingertips.]
It’s not mine.
[her voice is small and hollow, her gaze distant. Screaming villagers and pleading voices fill her ears and for a moment she can hardly breathe, let alone process his question.]
It’d be improper. [She manages to murmur, and then she blinks again and some awareness seems to come back to her as she levels her gaze on Wei Wuxian once more] Am I...Alive?
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Slowly Sae begins to stand, wincing a little as she puts weight on her ankle. It’s not busted or anything, but it’s sore from how hard she fell. While she might not be able to move fast, she can at least move. She looks down at the blood when he does and starts, like she’s seeing it for the first time, and reaches a trembling hand down to touch at the stain. It’s in a vague butterfly wing pattern and she feels the beginnings of hysterical laughter welling up in her throat.
Sae swallows hard and brings her shaking hands away from it, flecks of the dried blood coming off onto her fingertips.]
It’s not mine.
[her voice is small and hollow, her gaze distant. Screaming villagers and pleading voices fill her ears and for a moment she can hardly breathe, let alone process his question.]
It’d be improper. [She manages to murmur, and then she blinks again and some awareness seems to come back to her as she levels her gaze on Wei Wuxian once more] Am I...Alive?