[there's actually a little buzz of something - happy? at that? something hopeful.]
I'd like to see you again, too. [...] In better circumstances. I don't know that we'll be able to. It may be a struggle just to bring all of us back, but...
I think you would like Teyvat, if you could come to see it.
[ he probably would? teyvat is a really nice place, apart from all the terrible things that happen there. ]
The Neverafter didn't used to be so terrible. Maybe it won't be again someday. And I really-- I do owe you and Nahri. I'm a Prince, in theory, I have some ability to provide things in better circumstances.
[ He's been invited places too, and just can't really shake the idea that he could somehow give up on the Neverafter. Not with everyone else still there, fighting for it. And Elody, maybe trying to destroy it. ]
It's a difficult choice, sometimes. Being offered a more gentle story.
I think you're a very dutiful person, honestly. At least of what I've seen.
[ yeah. yeah it sucks doesn't it. ]
... When I left the pond and was brought to live in the castle, my feelings were that the only thing I wanted to do for the rest of my life was to have no responsibilities, no cares at all except to enjoy my time, because I had somehow miraculously ended up with all of the things that I had ever wanted. True love, a home, safe behind thick castle walls.
And I forgot, or never learned at all, that those things don't just stay on their own. You do have a duty to care for the things you have, that you love. I didn't, and I lost them because of that. I think Nahri probably feels the same, that she just doesn't want to lose something she loves, or will feel as if she has doomed them because of it.
[it's funny, because she doesn't think of herself as one - but she is, in her own sense. just because it isn't a castle or a kingdom or the fate of the world that she's responsible for doesn't mean she isn't diligent in how she carries out her every day.
she watches him as he speaks, and then:]
I know that you have your responsibility.
... But Teyvat is still open to you. If you ever need a place to go, if you ever find a way there, I will be in Liyue waiting.
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I'd like to see you again, too. [...] In better circumstances. I don't know that we'll be able to. It may be a struggle just to bring all of us back, but...
I think you would like Teyvat, if you could come to see it.
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The Neverafter didn't used to be so terrible. Maybe it won't be again someday. And I really-- I do owe you and Nahri. I'm a Prince, in theory, I have some ability to provide things in better circumstances.
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Nahri is marrying royalty, you know. [...] Hmph. She won't let me kill the man she's supposed to be marrying.
[rude of her tbh]
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I apologize on behalf of royalty ... ? [ he means this. it is sincere. ] Would she be going with you?
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[she says, after a moment.] I don't think so. She wants to take care of her world.
[but like. shenhe would be lying if she said she didn't really, really want nahri to come with her. the triguns, too.]
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[ He's been invited places too, and just can't really shake the idea that he could somehow give up on the Neverafter. Not with everyone else still there, fighting for it. And Elody, maybe trying to destroy it. ]
It's a difficult choice, sometimes. Being offered a more gentle story.
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[but he's not wrong. she sighs.]
I learned what duty felt like, on my mission. I don't care for it.
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[ yeah. yeah it sucks doesn't it. ]
... When I left the pond and was brought to live in the castle, my feelings were that the only thing I wanted to do for the rest of my life was to have no responsibilities, no cares at all except to enjoy my time, because I had somehow miraculously ended up with all of the things that I had ever wanted. True love, a home, safe behind thick castle walls.
And I forgot, or never learned at all, that those things don't just stay on their own. You do have a duty to care for the things you have, that you love. I didn't, and I lost them because of that. I think Nahri probably feels the same, that she just doesn't want to lose something she loves, or will feel as if she has doomed them because of it.
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she watches him as he speaks, and then:]
I know that you have your responsibility.
... But Teyvat is still open to you. If you ever need a place to go, if you ever find a way there, I will be in Liyue waiting.