Open: April things

[alittlespicy]

WHO: Lan WangJi and OPEN
WHERE: Edge of the woods, around Chroma... things.
WHEN: From sometime after Pyra's invitation onwards during April.
WHAT: Various and sundry. Cutting down trees. Showing off strength (not on purpose). Wolves maybe.
WARNINGS: Emotional ow? Will edit if other things come up.

Some prompts as comments; if you want to come bother WangJi, just tag in or poke me at kikibug13

Comments

[sirnyxalot]

[Not long ago he would brush it off, knowing that a little hard work and he'd be as back to normal as he can be, but it's been eating at him this week. Even though the last month or so of exercise and stretching has given him most of the function of his left arm back, it's still a far cry from the man he had been.

He didn't used to care this much.]

I can't hunt, I can't fight. I can't use magic without killing myself. I can't do anything. [He clenches his scarred fist.] I came back crippled to a place where everyone needs to help.

[WangJi wasn't someone to vent to, but he didn't want the pity in his friends' eyes. And this was the man who saw him at his weakest point anyway. When he'd had two feet in death's door, skin flaking to ash where he sat.]

[alittlespicy]

[ WangJi doesn't mind, at least. There is no pity in his pale eyes, either, instead they focus on him with attention. ]

How long have you been doing these things you can not do now?

[sirnyxalot]

[The question cuts the brunt of the irritation out from under him.]</small Twenty years, give or take? I was a soldier for a long time even before I got here.

[alittlespicy]

[ That is. Almost as long as WangJi has been alive. Not that WangJi hasn't been practicing his sect's training almost as long as he's been alive. Son of the Sect Leader is not exactly a position where he could get much of a childhood... ]

Long time. You must have... experience you can teach.

[ There are different ways to protect people. Some of them are destroying the threat against them, er pushing it back. Others are letting people learn how to handle those threats. ]