return from lanling

[shangba]

A full moon, unblinking.

You did not sleep, to see?

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[shangba]

After lovemaking...

Wei Ying, is it not that you enjoy your own scent upon me then?

[emperorssmile]

It’s not just mine. It’s your scent mixed with mine and I like it. You don’t like me having your scent all over me?

[shangba]

...do.

But obscene. Sticky.

[emperorssmile]

Is it really obscene when it’s just the two of us?

It is pretty sticky though.

[shangba]

It is why I hold you close during bathing.

To catch scent.

[emperorssmile]

I like it when you hold me and now I like it even more.

I’ve been using your oils to bathe with since we’ve been apart. Wearing your used robes to sleep.

[shangba]

I ever speak of pining.

But, in truth, Wei Ying also yearns.

[emperorssmile]

I do yearn for you, Lan Zhan. Every day we’re apart, it feels like I’m walking around with half of me missing.

[shangba]

Only a handful of hours more.

[emperorssmile]

I don’t like being away from you, but I really like reuniting with you after we’re apart.

[shangba]

Why?

[emperorssmile]

It’s like having a drink when I’m thirsty or eating when I’m starved.

I have a place in me that feels empty when we’re apart and the only way to fill it is being in your arms.

[shangba]

And you crave the moment of completion.

[emperorssmile]

Yeah, I do. In both ways you could mean it.

[shangba]

I yearn always the days after the reunion. The first, the second.

After the longing settles. The peace.

[emperorssmile]

I like that part, too.

I always feel so much better when we’re together. I sleep better, I eat better.

[shangba]

And your ankles are warmed.

[emperorssmile]

And my toes.

My toes are warm in my boots, but my fingers could use a warm belly to thaw.

[shangba]

I ever suffer.

[emperorssmile]

Don't worry, I could warm them on your neck if we're in public.

[shangba]

In a hot bath. Together.

[emperorssmile]

How can you be so heartless, Lan Zhan? Making your poor husband endure the chill until we’re in the bath.

[shangba]

He will persevere.

[emperorssmile]

How cruel!

Won’t you at least hold my hands and blow warmth on them?

[shangba]

Ask nicely.