Soft dripping. Wind howls outside the half-open door....The room is dim. Candles flicker as thunder growls overhead...
lee wanxia pressing cloth to Jiangshi’s wound...
lee wanxia
(little worried)
you still bleeding....
jiangshi
(quietly)
Only when I allow it..
lee wanxia
(Glances up)
That supposed to be a joke?
what you think it's on your hand?
(sign)
Idiot!!
I have to do something...
jiangshi
(dry smirk)
If it were, you wouldn’t laugh anyway...
Fabric tearing Wanxia rips clean bandage cloth
lee wanxia
(muttering)
Impressive You don’t flinch, You don’t wince, You don’t blink.
(sharper)
But you walked in bleeding and half-dead...
jiangshi
(gazes at him calmly)
That was for your benefit...
lee wanxia
(narrows eyes)
Excuse me?...
jiangshi
I needed you to touch me
(pause)
...So I could feel the thread...
lee wanxia
(little taken aback and confused)
The thread??
jiangshi
(soft voice)
Between us. It's old. Tied in another time...
(leans in, gaze unreadable)
You’ve forgotten, doctor... but I haven’t...
Distant bells chime—though there are no temples near the village. Air grows cold..
lee wanxia
(stiffly)
What th...
You’re insane!!
jiangshi
(murmurs)
Possibly. But you’re the only face I see at the end of every cycle.
(quietly)
The only one who doesn’t rot with time...
lee wanxia
(low voice)
That’s... not possible...
jiangshi
(gaze)
why?
lee wanxia
(With proud and playful tone)
Cause I am the one and only piece god create....
jiangshi
(Soft chuckle)
Yes...you right...
Candle goes out with a sudden hiss. Darkness thickens...
jiangshi
(stands slowly)
This loop has begun again.
(quietly)
Again...Something is watching tonight
lee wanxia
(reaches for a lantern)
You’re not going anywhere until You fully recover and...you are interesting I want to know you more....
I like your suspense stories and about me that I really don't know about my self
(Chuckle)
I like you buddy!!
jiangshi
(stops, glancing over his shoulder)
That tone and lines...
(chuckles softly)
You used it in the 47th cycle too
lee wanxia
what did you say?
Sudden knock at the door. Three hard knocks. Boom Boom Boom
jiangshi
(voice darkens)
Do not answer that...
lee wanxia
(hesitates)
Why??
jiangshi
(turns fully to face him)
Because tonight...
(eyes glow faintly red)
...the thing knocking wears your face
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