Jiang Cheng is (sandu_shengshou) wrote in madisonvalley, @ 2023-05-14 03:24:00 |
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Jiang Cheng had been having a good day. He was working with the horses -- something he still loved even with how things had changed in Madison Valley. Most of the changes had passed him by, but this latest one had the potential to give him a very bad day. He had been trying to avoid any place where a man with a name like Scarecrow might hang out. The problem arose when Jiang Cheng failed to realize that there wasn't only one place the man would be with his horrible dust or gas or whatever it was. One moment, he was walking home to greet Lan Xichen and his sister...the next he was kneeling in a puddle of blood. The blood was still warm as if it had only been shed very recently. He looked around him and there was a body that seemed to be where the blood was coming from. The closer he got to him, the more blood flowed from the collapsed man. The curve of the man's back was familiar, but his mind refused to answer with what his eyes saw. He reached a hand to gently turn the man's head so that he could see his face, and he fell backward into the blood with a horrid scream. "No, no, no! You said that you weren't... that you were... Wei Wuxian, who has dared?!" It was only then that he realized he held Sandu and that the tip was dripping with fresh blood. Jiang Cheng was horrified by what he was seeing and what he had done. He needed to get help. Needed to get help for Wei Wuxian and find out what had happened and why his sword dripped with his brother's blood. By the time he reached the home he shared with Lan Xichen and Yanli, the gas wore off and he was in the doorway to Lan Xichen's room, pale, and shaking like a leaf in a storm. |