[ Xue Yang was ready to grab Xiao Xingchen again but it's the cough that gives him pause, stilling him for just a moment and adding a hint to his voice that--is definitely not fear, nor concern.
When Xiao Xingchen moves from the spot he'd been placed it reveals the evidence of what happened: a small number of formerly-long strands of rope now lay sliced into pieces, usually twisting and turning among each other before ultimately snaking outward to end in clean cuts.
Xue Yang pays them no mind. ]
Daozhang...
[ He starts again then trails off, realizing he doesn't quite know what he was going to say in the first place. So he goes with what comes easily. ]
You certainly helped out with my bad mood.
[ And then there was some weird emotional thing that happened after that, but if that goes unacknowledged, Xue Yang can ignore that it ever happened. ]
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[ Xue Yang was ready to grab Xiao Xingchen again but it's the cough that gives him pause, stilling him for just a moment and adding a hint to his voice that--is definitely not fear, nor concern.
When Xiao Xingchen moves from the spot he'd been placed it reveals the evidence of what happened: a small number of formerly-long strands of rope now lay sliced into pieces, usually twisting and turning among each other before ultimately snaking outward to end in clean cuts.
Xue Yang pays them no mind. ]
Daozhang...
[ He starts again then trails off, realizing he doesn't quite know what he was going to say in the first place. So he goes with what comes easily. ]
You certainly helped out with my bad mood.
[ And then there was some weird emotional thing that happened after that, but if that goes unacknowledged, Xue Yang can ignore that it ever happened. ]