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Seven drabbles written for MXTXGenWeek2020.
1. Character Study: Outsider POV (Xue Yang and Jin Guangyao)
2. Worldbuilding: Ghosts and Hauntings (Wei Wuxian in the Burial Mounds)
3. Friendship: Oaths and Promises (Yue Qingyuan and Shen Qingqiu)
4. Family (Liu Mingyan and Liu Qingge)
5. War (Jiang Yanli and Nie Huaisang)
6. Humour (Xue Yang and Su Minshan)
7. Trope Subversion: Arranged Marriage (Wen Ruohan, Meng Yao and Wen Qing)
Imported from Archive of Our Own. Original work id: 27841339.
Chapter 5: War
The first time Jiang Yanli saw Nie Huaisang at Qinghe, he was standing in the doorway of a minor hall, hastily taken over for the wounded streaming into the Unclean Realms. Mouth open like a fish, hands gripping his fan but shaking anyway, he was blocking two laden stretchers.
She took him by the shoulders. "Here. Hold his hand. Give him water when he wakes—carefully, drop by drop!" The boy stumbled but obeyed.
Months later, she looked at her right-hand assistant and marvelled at how his confidence had grown—not realising how much hers, as a leader, had too.