[Jin Guangyao isn't the person Nie Mingjue's talking to, but has just started to edge out into the cavern's light when he hears that familiar voice and freezes.
It's one thing to yell a final 'fuck you' to someone when you're crazed with pain and betrayal and know you're going to die anyway. It's entirely a different thing when you're... alive? Or some semblance of, in this hazily dreamlike world. Self-preservation instinct starts to kick in as he turns his head and stares, eyes wide, starting to shake just the tiniest bit.]
Crystal Cavern [might not be a long thread even but I can't resist.]
It's one thing to yell a final 'fuck you' to someone when you're crazed with pain and betrayal and know you're going to die anyway. It's entirely a different thing when you're... alive? Or some semblance of, in this hazily dreamlike world. Self-preservation instinct starts to kick in as he turns his head and stares, eyes wide, starting to shake just the tiniest bit.]
Brother...